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at a meeting held 
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“That we hereby authorize and endorse the publication 
of an official historic souvenir hand-book of 
BALTIMORE METHODISM and the 
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 


to be issued and sold under the auspices of 
the Baltimore Committee of Entertainment for 
the General Conference of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, 
to be held in Baltimore, 
in May, 1908.” 


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SUMMERFIELD BALDWIN DAVID H. CARROLL 

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JAMES E. INGRAM DAVID H. CARROLL E. L. WATSON 


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Ze ALTIMORE will have the privilege of witnessing the assembling of the 
next General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America, 
in The Lyric, May 6, 1908. Our city has been signally honored in the 
past by the meeting of eleven such Conferences here since the founding of 
this great evangelistic denomination in America. No other city on 
the continent can show such a record. Although these assemblages 
have not been held here as frequently in recent years as in the early days 

of Methodism (the last meeting of the General Conference in Baltimore having taken place 

in 1876), yet the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America is interwoven 
with the story of men and events that may justly entitle this city and State to be regarded 
as the cradle and headquarters of American Methodism during its formative period. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church in America was formally organized in the 
Lovely Lane Meeting House, which stood on the site of the Merchants’ Club in German 
Street. Francis Asbury, who was the great organizer and founder of the Church in 
America, made his headquarters in Baltimore; and his final burial place was in Mt. 
Olivet Cemetery. Passing from event to event, a lengthy array of interesting facts 
bearing upon the early development of the church in our midst, may be cited, so that 
the occasion of the coming of the General Conference seems timely and opportune for 
such a recital as will be instructive to the present generation, and interesting to the 
many thousands of visitors who will come to Baltimore in May. 

The Methodist Church exceeds, numerically, every other Protestant denomination. 
The General Conierence meets only once in four years, and many cities strive to secure 
this great gathering, which continues a month, and brings fully 30,000 persons in its 
following. 

It is proposed, in this publication on “‘Baltimore Methodism and The General 
Conference of 1908,’’ to illustrate the historic places and people connected with the 
Church in this vicinity, as well as buildings and places that may be of interest to 
visitors attending the Conference, with such text matter as will elucidate the work. 
The book contains an advance notice of the meeting of the General Conference, 
with illustrations of the Bishops and other dignitaries of the Church. Also, some 
practical points for the stranger in Baltimore, with suggestions of objects of interest to 


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The book is embellished with many illustrations made from new plates, the pictures 
in a number of instances being copyrighted. For the use of others, the Committee of 
Publication wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of Eaton & Mains, of New York, the 
Baltimore & Ohio and Western Maryland Railroad Companies, and other friends, who 
have generously supplied an interesting array of illustrations which it is hoped will gratify 
and delight the possessors of this book. ap 

JAMES E. INGRAM, ) 
Davip H. CARROLL, + Committee on Publication. 
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JOHN WESLEY. 


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Z| HE great founder of Methodism defined a Methodist as “‘One who lives according 
to the method laid down in the holy Scriptures.’’ Broad as this definition seems, 
it gives a foundation upon which has been built an organized system of faith, doc- 
trine and conduct, the success of which is one of the most notable in the religious 
annals of the world. It is little more than two centuries since John Wesley was 
born, and over a third of a century later before his marvelous mission began to make a lasting 
impression on mankind. Now the tidal wave from the impact of this man of God upon the sea 
of humanity sweeps round the earth, bearing on to the shores of salvation millions of souls. 


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DECEASED BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 


Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church 


key to Frontispiece 


HENRY W. WARREN, 


Cyrus D. Foss, WILLARD F, MALLALIEU, 
THOMAS BOWMAN, JOHN H. VINCENT, JOHN M. WALDEN, JOHN W.HAMILTON, JOSEPH F. BERRY, 
DANIEL A. GOODSELL, David H. Moore, 


EARL CRANSTON. 


HENRY SPELLMEYER. 


WILLIAM F. MCDOWELL. 


LUTHER B. WILSON. JAMES W. BASHFORD. MERRIMAN C. HARRIS. 
THomas B. NEELY. JOHN E. ROBINSON. 
JaMES M. THOBURN. WILLIAM BURT. WILLIAM F. OLDMAN. 
JosEPH E. HARTZELL. FRANK W. WARNE 


IsAIAH B. SCOTT. 


Deceased Bishops of the Methodist Lpiscopal Church 


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WILLIAM MCKENDREE, THOMAS COKE, ENOCH GEORGE, 


FRANCIS ASBURY, RICHARD WHATCOAT, 


ROBERT R. ROBERTS, LEONIDAS lL. HAMLINE, 
EDMUND S. JANES, JOSHUA SOULE, THomMAS A. Morris, OSMON C. BAKER, 

Levi Scot, ELYAH HEDDING, BEVERLY WAUGH, EDWARD R. AMES, 
MATTHEW SIMPSON, JAMES O. ANDREW, Davis W. CLARK, 
EDWARD THOMSON, JOHN Emory, CALVIN KINGSLEY, 
WILLIAM L,. HARRIS, RANDOLPH S. FOSTER, 

Isaac W. WILEY, STEPHEN M. MERRILL, 
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The application of the term ‘‘Methodists’”’ in derision to Wesley and his companions at Oxford Uni- 
versity on account of their systematic, diligent and faithful devotion to religious duties is generally 
known, but he and his followers have made the name a triumphant watchword in the cause of Christ. It 
is another example of the ignominious cross—the instrument of death for the slave—becoming the throne 
of the Saviour and the symbol of Christianity throughout the world. 

It is not the purpose of this book to deal with the detailed history of John Wesley and his brother 
Charles; of George Whitefield and the other godly men who were classed as members of the ‘‘Holy Club”’ 
at Oxford, and who were the forerunners of the Methodists of our day. But no book touching upon the 
history, growth or achievements of Methodism, should fail to pay a just tribute to its founder—the man 
who projected, guided and counselled the church in its earliest period, and whose name is forever enshrined 
in the hearts of millions of people. Following him, have come and gone, a mighty host of faithful, zealous, 
unfaltering heroes, who have carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ hither and thither, into all the corners of 
the globe. No blare of trumpets marks their footsteps, no heralds sound their coming, but throughout 
the years, in sickness, sorrow,—life and death, they have brought the message of peace and love and sal- 
vation. Verily, they have their reward. Despite the divergent views of men, the divisions and schisms in 
organization, the mighty work goes forward with ever increasing magnitude. 

A history of Methodism published in 1900 noted thirty-five sects or divisions springing from the 
mother church founded by Wesley, with a total of 7,867,147 members, which number has largely increased. 
The greatest of all these numerically and in evangelistic effort is the Methodist Episcopal Church, the 
General Conference of which will assemble in Baltimore, May 6, 1968. The following recently published 
statistics give some idea of the magnitude of this powerful church: Members, 3,303,221; preachers, 19,190; 
lay preachers, 14,057; teachers in church institutions, 2,931; students, 59,306; churches, 29,523; parson- 
ages, 13,097; value of churches and parsonages, $186,924,033; value of schools and colleges, $47,569,532. 
Including the children who are brought under the influence of this great religious organization, it is 
reasonable to state that it represents 12,000,C00 individuals. The number of Sunday school scholars is 
more than 3,000,000. 

These statistics, large as they are, do not measure the full tribute to Methodism that it deserves, for 
out of its formation have grown other distinctive religious organizations numbering many millions, who 
adhere essentially to the same faith, but which are not affiliated with the General Conference of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. 

The Methodist Year Book for 1908 tabulates seventeen bodies of Methodists in the United States which 
number 6,551,891 communicant members, giving this faith in all its branches second rank in this country. 
But to go a step further, the Methodist Episcopal Church alone with its 3,303,221 members is only exceeded 
by one other church organization, and is closely followed by the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 
ranking fifth with nearly one and a half millions of members. 

There are many organizations within the church, or in close alliance with it, which have rendered 
effective aid in carrying forward the standards of the church, among which may be named the Epworth 
League, White Shield League, Tract Society, Bible Society, publication associations, home and foreign 
missionary societies, immigrant societies, insurance societies, hospital societies, Brotherhood of St. Paul, 
Anti-Saloon Teague, Wesley Brotherhood, Evangelization Union, Chautauqua institutions, and the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. 

Statistical prefaces make dull reading, usually, but the significance of piling up figures in this story is 
to show what a mighty oak has from a little acorn grown, and to dwell upon the historic fact that the acorn 
was in a sense planted in or near Baltimore. The coming together of this potential religious body in 
Baltimore this year has, consequently, a peculiar and an interesting phase, and it is our purpose briefly to 
recount the chain of events centering in this city which make it a Mecca for Methodists, if we may trans- 
port a word from an alien faith to express our meaning. 

The world recognizes that the religious movement which grew out of the life work of John Wesley in 
England in the eighteenth century is too momentous and far-reaching to be limited to any one place or 
people, and from the very nature of its organization and purpose must continue to grow, increase and spread. 


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16 


LoG MEETING HOUSE, FREDERICK (NOW CARROLL) CouNTYy, MD. 


Sowing the Seed in Emerica 


‘“‘And others fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and 
some sixty, and some an hundred.’’ 


JN ELOQUENT orator said recently, ‘“‘I believe that Almighty God founded the American 
nation to be a lamp of liberty shining throughout the world.’’ Blessed indeed is that nation, 
if we may also add thereunto the laurels of holiness and religious achievement for the king- 
dom of Heaven. The quickening of righteous zeal, the ardor of a purified faith, and the 
consecrated devotion to the work of the Master’s service, inspired by the Creator, and led by 
John Wesley, made an indelible impression upon the people of the British Isles, but the full fruition of 
the life and services of this matchless leader, seem destined to be accomplished in largest measure through 
the seed planted in America. ‘Today, a majestic, united powerful people, then a few, struggling, strag- 
gling settlements along the Atlantic border of this continent, America was. in truth, a soil for the planting 
of religious effort that has brought forth a rich and ever increasing harvest, until, despite the many 
obstacles, hope begins to dawn upon the consciousness of the world that universal evangelization may be 
accomplished through this enlightened, progressive and indomitable nation. 

No more potent instrument is engaged in this mighty work than the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
By her side is the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Methodist Protestant Church and other 
branches, all of which may claim a common heritage in the historic events that rooted the faith of their 
fathers deep and strong in the early days of Methodism on the new continent. 

sriefly recorded, the first sowing was twofold, or at least in two places, separate and distinct from 
one another in their origin on this side of the Atlantic. One took place in the backwoods, on the frontier 


BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 17 


WESLEY CHAPEL, JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. 


as it were, in the midst of the primitive conditions of life in a new country. The other sprang up in the 
centre of the civilization of the time, in the cosmopolitan city of the colonies. 

The one will be known throughout all ages, wherever Methodism thrives, as Strawbridge’s Log 
Meeting House. ‘The other will be preserved in history as Wesley Chapel, the old John Street Church, 
New York. Marylanders rejoice and take pride in the fact that the former was located within the borders 
of their State, and rest secure in the belief that the Log Meeting House was the first Methodist Church in 
America, while a similar claim is made for Wesley Chapel. The issue has been much discussed, but a 
judicial attitude and temper would suggest that the positive and uncontroverted evidence fixes the erection 
of Wesley Chapel, New York, in 1768, while the construction of the Log Meeting House in Frederick 
(now Carroll) County, Maryland, is indicated to have been at an earlier date, although absolute docu- 
mentary proof of this proposition may not be available. This is a natural condition as the environment 
of the country chapel would tend to make a definite record less probable than was the case in the city 
already recognized as one of the leading communities in the colonies. 

Be this as it may, the glorious work began and radiated from these two centres until it spread 


throughout the length and breadth of the land. The mission of the Wesleys to Savannah in 1735 or the _ 


tours of later years made by Whitefield cannot be regarded as laying any permanent foundation in 
America, but the work of Robert Strawbridge, Barbara Heck, Philip Embury and Captain Thomas Webb 
made a definite beginning from which sprang societies, preaching, organization, and religious results that 
have been continuous from their day until the present. Rev W. H. Daniels, in ‘’ The Illustrated History 
of Methodism,’’ writes: ‘‘ The first Methodist immigrant who opened his commission as a local preacher 
in the American colonies—if the statement of Bishop Asbury and of certain other contemporary authori- 
ties is to be accepted—was Robert Strawbridge, a genuine Irishman, lively, improvident, full of religion, 
who came to America with his family about the year 1759 and settled on Sam’s Creek, in the woods of 
Maryland.’’ ‘Turning to the other founders of the faith in America the story is briefly as follows: 

Philip Embury, a carpenter by trade, and a preacher of the gospel in Ireland, emigrated with others, 
including Barbara Heck. ‘These immigrants settled in New York, but Embury for five years refrained 


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THE Los MEETING HOUSE. THE STONE CHAPEL. 


PULPIT MADE OF LOGS FROM STRAWBRIDSE M. E. CHURCH, BALTIMORE. MEMORIAL TABLET. 
THE MEETING HOUSE 


BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1968 19 


from preaching. Other immigrants, some of whom were relatives 
or friends, followed the first party, and Barbara Heck in one of 
her visits to the newcomers found a game of cards in progress. 
The historian says ‘‘she seized the cards, threw them into the fire 
and gave her friends a solemn warning against sin.’’ The incident 
aroused her and she incited her cousin, Embury, who was a 
licensed preacher, to begin services in hisown house. ‘Two classes 
were soon organized, one for women and the other for men. ‘The 
movement became noised abroad and many persons were attracted 
to the meetings. 

Eventually, the news reached Captain Thomas Webb, of the 
British army, stationed at Albany, who came down to New York, 
he having been converted under a sermon by John Wesley in 
Bristol, England, in 1765. Captain Webb is said to have opened 
his own house in Albany for religious services, but after coming to 
New York he entered heartily into the work there, preaching him- 
self and contributing of 
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increase. One writer says: The Methodist meeting, with its 


hearty fellowship, its delightful singing and its red-coated 
minister, who preached with two swords lying on the desk 
before him—one of them the sword of the Spirit, the other the 
sword of a captain in his Majesty’s regulars—was now one of 
the marvels of New York, and to accommodate the increasing 
crowds a loft over a sailmaker’s shop in William street was 
secured. It was eighteen feet in width by sixty in length, but 
it would not hold half the people who came twice a week to hear 
Webb and Embury.’’ 

Barbara Heck then planned a meeting-house, and would 
not be dissuaded 
from urging the 

PHILIP EMBURY project forward un- 

til the matter was 

accomplished, Captain Webb heading the subscription with 
thirty pounds English money. There were nearly two hun- 
dred and fifty subscribers. The chapel was built of stone, 
faced with blue plaster. It was sixty feet in length by forty- 
two in breadth. Dissenters were not yet allowed to erect 
regular churches in the city; the new building was, there- 
fore, provided with a fire place and chimney to avoid trans- 
eressing the law. ‘There were side galleries to the building, 
which for a long time were accessible only by rude ladders; 
the seats had no backs; it was a rough unfinished place, but 
it was very neat and clean, and the floor was sprinkled over 
with sand as white as snow. Embury, being a skillful car- 
penter, wrought diligently upon the structure. With his 
own hands he built the pulpit, and on the memorable 30th of 
October, 1768, mounted the desk he had made and dedicated 
the humble temple. He was one of the trustees and treasurer 
of the church. WS 

It was called Wesley Chapel and was located on John BARBARA HECK 
street, New York, and has been supplanted in recent years 


20 BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 
by a building which retains the old name. The General Conference of 1812 was held in Wesley Chapel. 

In a short time the services were overcrowded and the work spread. Captain Webb had been placed 
on the retired list of the British Army and gave his time as an evangelist. He hired a house in which to 
preach at Jamaica, Long Island, formed societies at Pemberton, Burlington and Trenton, New Jersey; 
preached at Newcastle and Wilmington, Delaware, and on the shore of the Brandywine. He was the 
pioneer of Methodism in Philadelphia, and collected thirty pounds for Wesley Chapel, New York. 

In 1770, Embury left New York City and settled in Camden, Washington County, N. Y. He con- 
tinued to preach, organized a small society, and was appointed Justice of the Peace. In 1775, he was 
injured while mowing and died shortly afterward. His remains were buried about seven miles from Ash 
Grove, but in 1832 were removed to the Methodist burying ground at Ash Grove, where a marble tablet 
was erected to his memory, and in 1873 the National Local Preachers Association erected a marble monu- 
ment to perpetuate the memory of his services to American Methodism. 

Barbara Heck and her husband, Paul, also removed to Camden on Lake Champlain in 1770, 
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O fairer land ever glistened under the radiant sunshine than the pastoral region that 
rolls away in hill and valley from Baltimore to the crest of the Blue Ridge Moun- 
tains in Western Maryland. The wanderer through this land of nature’s pictures is 
prone to linger. Here the tiller of the soil finds a generous response to his labors. Rich 
harvests yield their recompense to the honest toiler. Peaceful scenes and plenteous 

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ancestors felled the virgin forests that clothed these hills before the Revolutionary War, and turned the 
first furrows that looked upward to the sky. In many families, generation has followed generation on the 
farms, giving now and again a few members to die in the country’s service, or to populate the West and 
extend the frontier, or, perchance, to strengthen the professions of medicine, law or the clergy in the city 
or adjacent town. 

It was in the midst of this land of picturesque beauty that Robert Strawbridge settled after his arrival 
in America. Wakefield Valley is the present name of the particular stretch of country that became the 
scene of the historic beginning of Methodism on the American Continent. This valley is a gentle depres- 
sion between two ranges of undulating hills, extending from northeast to southwest. It is just beyond 
Westminster, the county seat of Carroll County. This thriving little city is twenty-eight miles northwest 
of Baltimote, on the Western Maryland Railroad. 

The scene of the early exploits of Strawbridge is several miles southwest of this little city. What 
induced him to select this region for a place of residence is not known. It is alleged that he came to 
America ‘‘to better his unpromising fortunes,’’ but it is quite probable that he left Ireland on account of 
the persecutions to which the Wesleyans were subjected. It is certain that several Protestant families from 
the province of Ulster, in North Ireland, settled some years before the Revolution within ten miles of the 
spot selected by Strawbridge. These were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, however. The presence of several 
families of Irish antecedents suggests the possibility of Strawbridge following in the wake of some other 
expatriated son of Erin. 

His birthplace was Drumsnagh, County Leitrim, the southwestern county of the northern province of 
Ulster, on the borders of that section of Ireland which is famous in Methodist history as the field traversed 
by Gideon Ouseley, and swept by the great revivals which followed his labors and those of his comrades 
in preaching, praying and circulating the Scriptures among the Irish people. When, as a young man, 
Strawbridge became a preacher, he was forced to leave his native county and take refuge in Sligo, where 
the Wesleyans were numerous enough to protect themselves. He married a young lady of Terryhugan, 
and one of the historians says of his wife, ‘‘Her patience was quite as admirable as her husband's zeal.’’ 

The date of his emigration to America is not a matter of record, so far as known, and has been given 
by some writers as having been as early as ‘‘1759 or 1760,’’ and by others as late as 1766. The former 
date was used by Rev. W. Hamilton in the Methodist Quarterly Review in July, 1856. Rev. Dr. George 
C. M. Roberts, who published the Centenary Pictorial Album in 1866, “‘being Contributions of the Early 
History of Methodism in the State of Maryland,’’ after personal investigations upon the subject, accepted 
the year 1760 as the correct date. There seems no doubt of the fact that Strawbridge began to exhort and 
preach as soon as he immigrated, and, consequently, the date of his immigration is the correct date of the 
beginning of Methodist preaching in America, if this antedated the preaching of Embury or Webb in the 
North. Dr. Roberts substantiates his acceptance of the year 1760 as correct by testimony of Michael Laird, 


ALEXANDER WARFIELD'S MANSION 


24 BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 


SITE OF THE LOG MEETING HOUSE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 


who was born April 30,1770. Mr. Laird obtained from his father “‘a knowledge of all the facts in relation 
to Mr. Strawbridge, with whom he was intimate, and therefore fully conversant with the truths stated in 
his letters. He says Mr. Strawbridge came to America in 1760, with his family, and settled on Sam’s. 
Creek. He opened his house for Divine worship at once, and continued preaching therein regularly. 
These efforts soon after resulted in the awakening and conversion of several who attended. His congrega- 
tions were large, many of whom came to see and hear the man who was reported to preach and pray 
extemporaneously. 

‘In another communication it is stated that Henry Maynard was baptized by Strawbridge when he 
was but four or five years of age. It is well known that he did not hesitate to administer the ordinances, 
although not authorized by Mr. Wesley so to do. At the time named Mr. S. was engaged in preaching 
regularly at the house of John Maynard, the half-brother of Henry. He was present with his father on 
one of these occasions, when Mr. S. baptized him at the spring, which was near at hand, a few hundred 
yards from the dwelling. ‘ 

“Henry Maynard was born August 12, 1757, and died in 1839, aged 82 years. This fixes his baptism 
as early as 1762. Ephraim Maynard, who is still living on Sam’s Creek, Carroll County, Maryland, in a 
statement made to Mr. Thomas C. Ruckle, our artist, on the 17th of May, 1866, says that he was perfectly 
familiar with the baptism of Henry Maynard; that it was at the spring near the house, where Mr. Straw- 
bridge had taken the boy, but four or five years of age. He dipped up with his hand some water, and 
poured it upon his head, in the name of the Holy Trinity. * * * 

“John Maynard, the proprietor of the house, was a Methodist, and it is known that he was a convert 
of Mr. Strawbridge for some considerable time before the baptism of this boy. All these things make it 
certain that he had been engaged in preaching for some time prior to 1762, and fully corroborates the 


statement contained in Mr. Laird’s letter aforementioned, viz., that he commenced his labors immediately 
after his settlement in Maryland. 


BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 25 


“Bishop Asbury, after holding in 1801 a conference at Henry Willis,’ on Pipe Creek, in the immediate 
vicinity of Mr. Strawbridge’s dwelling, says, in his journal: ‘Here Mr. Strawbridge formed the first 
society in Maryland and in America.’ This was written after the reception of information on the ground 
itself. By reference to his journal, it will be found that he dined on April 30, 1801, at Alexander War- 
field’s, on Sam’s Creek, and from there went to Henry Willis,’ on Pipe Creek, where he proposed to hold 
the Conference, at which there were present about forty preachers. From the relation of the Warfield 
family to the ‘Log Meeting House,’ and from the full knowledge of Henry Willis himself concerning it, it 
is rendered indubitable that the Bishop here received more correct information than he had previously, 
and was induced to write in his Journal what he did.”’ 

Turning from the question of priority, the significant fact of Strawbridge’s ministry was that it was 
progressive and productive. A giant oak in the vicinity of his home marked the spot where he preached 
before the dwelling was constructed; then his home was used and soon after the “‘ Log Meeting House.’’ 
The devastating hand of Time had begun to destroy the famous old Strawbridge oak to such an extent 
that it has been cut down within the past year and the wood will be turned into relics and souvenirs. We 
present a picture at the head of this article showing the tree as it appeared in its last years with a 
pilgrimage party, including Governor Edwin Warfield, President Goucher, of the Woman's College, A. 
Warfield Monroe, a descendant of Alexander Warfield, with a few other persons. 

Success attended Strawbridge’s efforts, and the people who were converted he gathered into classes, thus 
following the plan of Mr. Wesley. The first class is said to have been formed in the house of John Evans, 
which on account of the distinguished honor of having been the home of the first Methodist class meeting in 
America has been purchased by Mr. George W. Albaugh and presented to the American Methodist His- 


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torical Association, of which Dr. Goucher is president. It is purposed to preserve the house for future 
generations. From this house years ago was obtained the tall spindle-legged pulpit, shown in our illus- 
tration, which was used by Strawbridge and which is now in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore. 
Dr. Goucher has in his possession a plain square table with four legs, also used as a pulpit by Strawbridge, 
that was obtained from the homestead of Alexander Warfield, while we present an illustration of a some- 
what similar table which was discovered by Dr. Roberts in his investigations. These, with their accom- 
panying histories, indicate the preaching of the Gospel at the several homes of the respective owners. 
The John Evans’ house, according to the old record book, continued to be a place for preaching as late as 
1809. This house, built of unhewn logs, is one-and-a-half stories high, with shed room on the west side. 
It is southeast of the site of the Log Meeting House and is in Fred- 
erick County, just over the line dividing that and the adjacent County 
of Carroll, in which the Meeting House site is located. 

The home of Alexander Warfield was in the same vicinity. Bishop 
Asbury visited Mr. Warfield and preached at his house frequently. 
After Mr. Warfield was made steward in 1801, this house appears on 
the records as a place for regular public service, and it was continued 
as such for upwards of twenty years. Other homes of early Method- 
ists, which we are able to illustrate, were those of Jessie Durbin, Jacob 
Cassell and Henry Willis. They are interesting as the homes of 
some of Strawbridge’s converts and the first Methodists in America, 
where the faithful gathered to hold meetings, sing, pray and worship. 

The Jacob Cassell house was built in 1758, before Strawbridge 
came to this country. Rev. Henry Willis settled in this part of the 
country in later years. His wife was the daughter of Jesse Hollings- 
worth, of Baltimore, an intimate friend of Asbury. Mr. Willis passed 
the closing years of his life here, dying about 1808, after a service 
in the ministry which began in 1779. 


A notable revival was held in this house which was attended by 
the children of Jacob Cassell and William Durbin. Dr. Roberts 


es ; STRAWBRIDGE GRAVE IN BALTIMORE 
records that: ‘““Before leaving the place they became powerfully County 


28 BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 


THOMAS RANKIN 


awakened and subsequently several of them who left the 
house unconverted found peace in believing at a meeting 
held at the dwelling of Mr. Andrew Poulson. Leonard 
Cassell, who was among the number, afterward became a 
minister. John Durbin also entered the ministry. 

It was the fruits of this kind that made the Strawbridge 
foundation so effective and sure forthe future. He is cred- 
ited with the conversion of Richard Owings, who was the 
first American Methodist preacher. Owings had the privi- 
lege of preaching the sermon at the funeral of Strawbridge. 

But to renew the thread of the Strawbridge narrative, 
the preacher was not a successful business man. Having 
settled in his small cabin, he preached and farmed, 
but it is said that ‘‘ his preaching throve better than his 
farming.’’ Dr. Roberts says: ‘‘ He was always poor, de- 
voting himself mostly to the labor of preaching the Gospel 
far and near. He was eloquent as a preacher and a fine 
singer.’’ Upon his monument in Mt. Olivet Cemetery the 
date of the erection of the Log Meeting House is given as 
1764. From investigation after it was torn down Dr. Rob- 
erts determined the dimensions to have been twenty-four 
feet by twenty-four feet three inches. ‘The logs were, in 
part, subsequently used for the construction of a barn. 
The Park Place Strawbridge Methodist Episcopal Church 
in Baltimore has an interesting relic in the form of a pulpit 
built of some of the wood. 


We also present a recent picture of the site as it appears in modern times with a large party of visitors 


on the exact spot where the church was erected. 


This site is about one mile from where Strawbridge’s home was situated. Bishop Simpson, in the 
Cyclopedia of Methodism, in writing of Strawbridge, says: ‘“This building, though sometimes spoken of 


as the first Methodist Church in Maryland, was never 
deeded to the church, and was never finished.”’ 
erts notes, however, that “‘the marks of places where the 
door and windows were in the church still remain upon 
them.’’ It is related that Strawbridge buried his two 
children under the altar of the church, which would be a 
further evidence of its being sufficiently completed to war- 
rant such an act. Certain it is, that the building con- 
Some pictures represent the 
Log Meeting House with a chimney, but this has been 
ascertained to be erroneous, as the building was without 


tinued to be used for years. 


this accessory. 


As a place of worship, the Log Meeting House was 
succeeded by Poulson’s Chapel, built on land given by Mr. 
Poulson for that purpose. This in turn was followed bya 
structure which took the name of Stone Chapel, from the 
High up on the front of 
this chapel is a tablet on which are the initials J. B. and 
J. D., said to be those of John Baxter and Jessie Durbin, 
who were the foremost instruments in the building of the 


material of which it was built. 


church. 


Strawbridge preached in several places in Maryland, 


Dr. Rob- 


especially in Harford and Frederick Counties. In 1769 GEORGE SHADFORD 


BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 ao 


he was joined in his labors by Robert Williams, ‘and in the following year by John King. In 1773 
Strawbridge’s name appears on the minutes of the First Conference as one of the preachers assisting 
Asbury on the Baltimore circuit, but it does not appear that he continued in this connection, being of an 
independent character. It is supposed that the resolution of the Conference ‘“‘that every preacher who 
comes into connection with Mr. Wesley and the brethern who labor in America, is strictly to avoid admin- 
istering the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper,’’ was aimed at Strawbridge, as he had ad- 
ministered the ordinances freely, although it is not known whether he had any previous license during his 
residence in Ireland. Asbury says that Mr. Strawbridge was made an exception, but it was resolved that 
he could administer only under the direction of an assistant. He declined to recognize the authority of the 
assistant, and ceased his connection with the circuit work. In 1775, his name again appears as second 
preacher on Frederick circuit, but he seems to have been out of harmony with the preacher in charge. 

In 1776, he removed his family from Sam’s Creek to a farm at Long Green, Baltimore County, upon 
which his friend, Captain Charles Ridgely, gave him a lease for life. Here he lived in greater ease and 
comfort, for it is said that if it had not been for the toil of his wife and the charity of his neighbors, he 
would have failed to keep himself and family from want in the primitive surroundings of his Sam’s 
Creek estate. 

During the uncertainty of the Revolutionary period, some of the Methodist Societies made independent 
arrangements for preachers, and Strawbridge took charge of the Society at Sam’s Creek where he had 
resided, and of Bush Forest, in Harford County, continuing for five years without recognizing any 
responsibility tothe Conference. When the English missionaries fled back to their native land, and Asbury 
was in seclusion, the independent spirit of the Irish preacher asserted itself, and he pursued his chosen 
task undismayed, and free from the restraints of his former associates in the Conference. 

While living on his Baltimore County farm, in the immediate vicinity of the old manorial estate of 
Hampton, belonging to Captain Ridgely, Strawbridge visited Mr. John Wheeler in 1781, at his home 
which stood about a half mile east of the present town of Ruxton, on the Northern Central Railway. 
Here he was taken sick and died, and his funeral took place from beneath a gigantic walnut tree in the 
yard. Richard Owings preached the funeral sermon, and the body was interred in the grave-yard in the 
orchard, about one hundred yards or more south of the house. Here his body rested until it was removed 
with that of his wife, to Mt. Olivet Cemetery in the sixties, where he now lies in the Bishops’ lot, with 
Jesse Lee, the apostle of Methodism, just north, and Asbury, Waugh, George and Emory, south of him. 

The walnut tree, with 127 years added to its growth, still stands. It is 90 feet high and 5 feet 3 
inches in diameter. Bishop Simpson writes of him, “‘He was a man of warm impulses, but of very 
limited education.’’ 

The monument erected in Mt. Olivet Cemetery bears the following inscriptions : 

On the west face— 

““In memory of Rev. Robert Strawbridge, the first Methodist local preacher in Mary- 
land, and also his excellent wife.’’ 
‘* How calm his exit: night dews fall not more gently to 
the ground, or weary worn-out winds expire so soft.”’ 


The southern side contains the words— 
“He built the Log Meeting House in 
Frederick County, Maryland, 1764, the 
first in America. He died in Peace in 
1781, at Mr. John Wheeler’s, Baltimore 
County, whither he had gone to preach.’’ 
The north side inscription is— 
““He was born at Drumsnagh, Ireland, 
came to America in 1760, settled at Sam’s 
Creek, Frederick County, Maryland, and 
began to preach Christ in his own 
house.”’ 


The monument is three feet square at the base 
cand twelve feet high. Camp CHAPEL 


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\\} season’s growth, from the giant black walnut tree under which the funeral sermon 
of Robert Strawbridge was preached. They form a mute but eloquent message 
from the past, and their life story is a fitting type of the great church with whose 
history this ‘‘monarch of the forest’? has become identified. One hundred and 
twenty-seven years have passed since the words spoken at Strawbridge’s funeral echoed through 
the branches of this tree, but with renewed strength, year by year, the sturdy veteran of nature’s 
handicraft has put forth fresh foliage and in season has brought forth “‘fruit,’? ever growing 
larger and mightier. Strawbridge passed away, and other preachers have come and 
gone, generation after generation, ““season after season,’’ but the great cause that brought them 
forth goes on and on, giving evidence of greater strength as the years go by. 

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decade, but even at that early period showed the remarkable vitality and energy which have 
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oe HE following queries were propofed to every 
preacher : 

1. Ought not the authority of Mr. Wefley and that 
conference, to extend to the preachers and people in 
“america, as well as in Great-Britain and Ireland? 

Anfw. Yes. 

2. Ought not the doétrine and difcipline of the 
Methodifts, as contained in the minutes, to be the 
fole rule of our condu& who labour, in the connec- 
tion with Mr. Wefley, in America? 

Anfw. Yes. 

3. If fo, does it not follow, that if any preachers 
deviate from the minutes, we can have no fellowthip 
with them till they change their condu&t ? 

Jnfw. Yes. 


The following rules were agreed to by all the 
preachers prefent : 


s. Every preacher who a@&s in conneétion with. 
Mr. Wefley and the brethren who Jabour in Ameri- 


ST. GEORGE’sS CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA, 


Ca, is ftriGtly to avoid adminiftering the ordinances of 
baptifm and the Lord’s fupper. 

2. All the people among whom we labour to 
be earneftly exhorted to attend the church, and to- 
receive the ordinances there ; but in a particular man- 
ner to prefs the people in Maryland and Virginia, to- 
the obfervance of this minute. 

3. No perfon or perfons to be admitted to our 
love-feafts oftener than twice or thrice, unlefs they 
become members; and none to be admitted to the 
Zociety meetings more than thrice. 

4. None of the preachers in America to re- 
print any of Mr. Wedfley’s books, without his au- 
thority (when it can be got) and the confent of their 
brethren. 

5- Robert Williams to fell the books he has alrea- 
dy printed, but to print no more, unlefs under the 
above reftriGtion. 

6. Every preacher who aéts as an affiftant, to: 
fend an account of the work once in fix months te- 
the general affiftant. 

Que. 1. How are the preachers flationed ? 

4nfw. New-York, Thomas Rankin, ] to change 

Philadeiphia, George Shadford, { in 4 mons.. 
ohn King, 
Seles i William waters 
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Robert Strawbridge, 


Bakimore, Abraham Whitworth, 
Jofeph Yerbery. 
Norfolk, - Richard Wright. 


Peterfourg, - Robert Williams. 
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Philadelph ia - 180 
New-Jerfey - 200 
Maryland = ~ 500. 
Virginia = 100 
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centre of the most pronounced success and increase in 
members following the inauguration of the work by 
Strawbridge. Further north Captain Webb continued 
preaching and extended his missionary efforts into new 
fields. --The pioneer preachers had not come to America 
for the purpose of preaching, but as the work grew in 
magnitude, they saw the importance of having regularly 
ordained ministers to carry it forward. Appeals were 
made to Wesley and the British Wesleyans to send 
helpers to the colonies, and at the twenty-sixth Methodist 
Conference, held at Leeds, August 3, 1769, Richard 
Boardman and Joseph Pilmoor were selected for the 
American field as the first missionaries. ‘They landed 
in Philadelphia, October 24, 1769, and were met by 
Captain Webb. The following months they preached 
in that city and New York, and then, after exchanging 
pulpits for a time, Pilmoor made a wide circuit to the THE First CONFERENCE. 

South. On this journey he preached on the sidewalk in 

Baltimore, at a point near St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church. He went as far south as Savannah, 
Georgia. Boardman and Pilmoor continued their labors in America until the impending crisis of the 
Revolution took them back to the British Isles. 

In 1771 came Francis Asbury, the great light of the future Methodist church in America, and in 1773 
Captain Webb returned with Rev. Thomas Rankin and Rev. George Shadford from England, where he 
had gone in 1772 to make an appeal for recruits for the missionary cause. 

Pilmoor’s sermon was not the first by a Methodist preacher in this city. ‘The historian states: 
“The honor of the first Methodist sermon preached in Baltimore was by John King, an English local 
preacher who landed at Philadelphia in 1769. History says it was not long before he fell in with Straw- 
bridge, and for some time the two men traveled together. His pulpit on his first advent at Baltimore was 
a blacksmith’s block in front of a shop that stood on what is now Front street, near French (now Bath) 
Street.’’ 

The mansion in the distance shown in our picture, stood on the present site of Mount Vernon Place 
Methodist Episcopal Church, adjoining the Washington monument. The place was then known as Howard 
Park, and the house was the home of Charles Howard, son of Col. John Eager Howard, one of the heroes 
of Revolutionary days in Maryland. It was in this house at a later period that Francis Scott Key, author 
of the ‘‘Star-Spangled Banner,’’ died, while visiting Mrs. Howard who was his sister. 

John King’s next sermon was from a table at the junction of Baltimore and Calvert streets. It was 
upon a militia training day and King was roughly handled by the crowd, his table being upset. The 
commander of the troops, however, restored order and allowed him to proceed. Subsequently he was 
invited to preach in the old St. Paul’s English (now Protestant Episcopal) Church on Charles street. 

This pioneer of Methodism in Baltimore continued in the ministry until 1803. At his death, in North 
Carolina, he was believed to be among the last of the Methodist preachers who had shared in the pioneer 
service. 

King was accused by Wesley of being stubborn and headstrong, but they were forceful qualities in 
the face of the conditions in a new country. King’s vigor of voice and manner also drew from Wesley 
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word properly means, He shall not scream.’’ King and 
Williams assisted Captain Webb in laying out an 
American circuit for Boardman and Pilmoor. 

Captain Webb assisted materially in 1770 in pur- 
chasing St. George’s church in Philadelphia. For many 
years this was the most spacious edifice owned by the 
Methodists; being fifty-five by eighty-five feet. Its 
erection was begun in 1763 by a German Reformed 
congregation which was unable to finish it, and upon its 
being sold, the church in its unfinished condition was 
bought by the Methodists. After the Revolution it was 
finished and is the oldest Methodist church now stand- 
ing in America. It is also distinguished as the place 
where the first Conference of Methodist preachers was 
held. This Conference began July 14, 1773, continued 

INTERIOR OF BARRATYI’S CHAPEL. two days, and was attended by ten preachers. This 

took place soon after the arrival of Messrs. Rankin and 

Shadford. ‘The former had been appointed by Wesley as the head of the Methodist ministry in America 

and presided at the Conference. All the preachers named in the minutes were Europeans by birth with 

the exception of William Watters, who enjoys the distinction of being the first American itinerant preacher. 

He was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, October 16, 1751. When twenty years old he heard Straw- 

bridge, Williams and King preach, and was converted. Robert Williams took Watters with him in 1772 
on the Norfolk circuit ‘“‘to learn how to preach by preaching,’’ 

The statistics of the first Conference showed that the strength of Maryland Methodism almost equaled 
all the other colonies combined. Asbury was appointed to the Baltimore Circuit, which embraced all the 
societies in Maryland with five hundred members. ‘These societies had been formed in a very unmethodi- 
cal manner and needed order and discipline. Asbury organized the societies into classes for men and 
women. 

It became necessary to provide places of meeting for the Baltimore Society, as it had outgrown the 
homes of the members at which it had been entertained. As in New York, a sail loft was selected and 
fortunately was tendered the Society for its meetings free of cost. This loft was located at the corner of 
Mills and Block streets. Though a 
room of good size it was soon crowded, 
and the progress of the movement led to 
a determination to build two new meet- 
ing-houses or chapels about one anda 
half miles apart. "These were subse- 
quently erected and were known as 
Strawberry Alley and Lovely Lane 
Meeting Houses or Chapels. We shall 
learn more of them later. 

The second Conference met in Phila- 
delphia, May 25, 1774. The reports 
showed ten circuits in New York, ‘‘The 
Jerseys,’’ Pennsylvania, Maryland and 
Virginia; seventeen preachers, a gain 
of seven in one year, and 2,073 members 
of the societies. The coming storm of 
the Revolutionary War created a trying 
period for the preachers, especially those 
who were loyal subjects of King George. 
Wesley had written an address to the 
people of the British Colonies in North BARRAT?T’S CHAPEL. 


FREEBORN GARRETTSON. 


America, which found its way into the hands of prominent revolutionists, and the effect was to make a 
Methodist preacher an object of suspicion. The English preachers and missionaries gradually withdrew 
from the country until Francis Asbury was the only one of the foreign leaders left, and afterward the work 
in large measure fell upon the shoulders of native preachers. Asbury remained in seclusion, but not 
inactive, in Delaware during the height of the war, and a number of preachers were placed under arrest 
and jailed until they gave bonds. In Maryland a test oath was ordered to be administered to all doubtful 
persons, which oath was a pledge to take up arms in aid of the Revolution if called to do so by the colonial 
authorities. Such oaths were not for the clergy of the Church of England, but the itinerant Methodist 
preachers were not considered ‘“‘clergymen.”’ 

During two years of enforced seclusion Asbury con- 
tinued to gain friends. A letter from him to Rankin, 
falling into the hands of American officers, gave evi- 
dence of his love for the people of his adopted country 
and his expectation of seeing it an independent nation, 
This tended to gain for Asbury and his followers the 
opinion that they were not inimical to the interests of 
the country. Among Asbury’s friends was Philip Bar- 
ratt, sometimes called “‘the pious Judge Barratt,’’ who 
aided in sheltering the itinerant preachers at this time. 
The chapel which was known as Barratt’s chapel, 
became the scene of a historic incident a few years later ; 
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36 BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 


Having overcome the suspicions of the patriots, Asbury, during the last half of thes resumed his 
place as the active leader of the itinerant forces, displaying as one historian records, abilities of the high- 
est order; patience, persistence, indifference to personal sufferings, the power of combination and syste- 
matic arrangement, and a consumate judgment of men; just those qualities which the situation demanded 
in a pioneer Bishop who was called upon to manage a diocese reaching from Jersey to Florida, from the 
coast to the Alleghanies and over them.’’ As soon as it was possible, Asbury organized the whole Meth- 
odist work into one great circuit, which with incredible toil and in spite of frequent illness, he compassed 
once and sometimes twice a year. 

When the war was ended and the demand came for ordained ministers who could administer the 
sacraments to the people, supplying the void left by the Church of England clergy who had left the country, 
Dr. Thomas Coke, accompanied by Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey, having been ordained for the 
mission and provided with a plan for that purpose, were sent by Wesley to inaugurate the founding of the 
new organization of the Methodist Societies in America. 

Dr. Coke in his journal gives quite minutely the details of their trip. Landing in New York, Novem- 
ber 3, 1784, Dr. Coke made his way southward, preaching as he went at stations on the route, until he 
reached Dover, Delaware, November 13. ‘‘Here,’’ he writes, ‘‘I met with an excellent young man, Free- 
born Garrettson. He seems to be all meekness and love and yet all activity. He makes one quite ashamed, 
for he invariably rises at four in the morning, and not only he, but several others of the preachers, and 
now blushing, I brought back my alarm to four o’clock. The next day about ten o’clock we arrived at 
Barratt’s chapel, so-called from the name of our friend that built it, and who went to heaven a few days 
ago. In this chapel in the midst of a forest I had a noble congregation. After the sermon a plain, robust 
man came up to me in the pulpit and kissed me. I thought it could be no other than Mr. Asbury and I 
was not deceived. . . . After dining in company with eleven of our preachers at our Sister Barratt’s, 
about a mile from the church, Mr. Asbury and I had a private conversation concerning the future manage- 
ment of our affairs in America. 

Asbury stated that in anticipation of the coming of Coke, he had assembled a few of the preachers for 
consultation, and after an interchange of views it was determined to summon the preachers throughout the 
country to a Conference to assemble in Baltimore on Christmas Eve. 

Freeborn Garrettson was selected for the task of bringing the widely separated preachers together. 
And as Coke expresses it, he went riding “‘like an arrow,’’ North and South, sending out messengers to 
reach as many of the itinerants as possible. His work was well done, for the result showed that sixty of 
the eighty preachers in the country responded. He had traveled twelve hundred miles in six weeks in that 
period of primitive transportation methods. Garrettson was a striking figure during the Revolutionary 
period. He was born in 1752, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, near the mouth of the Sus- 
quehanna River, converted in 1775, he entered the work of the itinerant ministry. Under the prevalent 
impression that all Methodist preachers were Tories, Garrettson was mobbed and imprisoned while on the 
eastern shore of Maryland. It is said that at one time he was nearly beaten to death in Queen Anne’s 
county for no other offense than that of being a Methodist preacher. 

He became a noted character in the land in later times, marrying a sister of Robert Livingston, 
one of the committee who framed the Declaration of Independence. His later life was closely identified 
with Methodism in New York, and he was the first presiding elder of the New York District. 

While Garrettson was making his famous ride Coke followed a circuit laid out for him extending down 
the Peninsula through Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Virginia, preaching and administer- 
ing the sacraments. 

On December 14, 1784, he crossed the Chesapeake Bay to the Western Shore and relates that ‘‘at the 
other side (we) were met by Mr. Dallam in his chariot, to whose house I went. He is a brother-in-law to 
the Governor of the State and a member of our Society. We havea preaching house near where I preached 
inthe evening. . . . Mr. Asbury met me on this side of the Bay. This house of Brother Dallam was 
at Abingdon, Harford county, soon to become noted as the site of Cokesbury College.”’ 

After several days spent at Mr. Dallam’s and in preaching in the neighborhood, the party made its 


way to Perry Hall, Baltimore county, one of the most hallowed spots in the traditions of American 
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A REMNANT OF ‘‘THE QUARTERS’’ AT PERRY HALT, 


Perry Dall 


A jAaven to the Founders of American Methodism 


AICANNING the pages of the journals of Coke and Asbury, and delving into the 
| available records of that early period of American Methodism, the reader is deeply 
impressed with the thought that while not a few homes were opened to the Meth- 
odist preachers of the time, there was no mansion of so pretentious a character as 
Perry Hall that was so freely at their service. As Asbury went up and down 
through the land, he made frequent visits to the hospitable manor-house, and his host and 
hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dorsey Gough extended him and his colaborers many a hearty 
welcome. ‘The events of 1784 entitle the place to a world-wide fame. 

The Perry Hall estate lay eight miles northeast from Baltimore and east of the famous 
Hampton Manor of the Ridgely family. Through the courtesy of the curator of the Woman’s 
College, we are enabled to present a picture of Perry,Hall in its pristine elegance, with its 
spreading wings of cupolaed chapel and kitchen and adjacent ‘“‘quarters,’”’ crowning a sightly 
eminence near the intersection of the Harford Road andthe Big Gunpowder River. ‘This picture 
was made from a painting owned by a descendant of the family. In the centre foreground are 
the master and mistress, the latter accompanied probably by her only sister, Elizabeth, or her 
sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Ridgely, of Hampton Manor, both in Methodist cap and kerchief. 

The old Perry Hall mansion was partly burned in the early years, but there remains today 
possibly a portion of the central building having foundations and walls, fit for a castle, in a 
fairly good state of preservation. A few rods distant is a small stone building with a cupola, 
which appears to have been one extremity of the slave quarters seen in the right background of 
the painting, having a similar cupola. 

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that the leaders in the great movement about to be inaugurated came on Friday, December 17, 1784. Coke 
on this day records that ‘We set off (from the Dallam homestead, in Harford County) for our valuable 
friend’s, Mr. Gough. His new mansion-house, which he has lately built, is the most elegant in this 
State. * * * His lady is a precious woman of fine sense. His daughter, about twelve years old, is of 
excellent parts. * * * He intends to go to Europe next spring to buy furniture for his house. * * * 
Here I have a noble room to myself, where Mr. Asbury and I may, in the course of a week, mature every- 
thing for the Conference.’’ 

In the latter words is set forth the purpose of this rendezvous of a number of the leading spirits in the 
coming Conference so soon to become an accomplished and historic fact. It was at Perry Hall the entire 
week before the Conference assembled, that the plans were discussed and analyzed and preparations made 
to launch the organization. 

Stevens, in his ‘‘ History of the Methodist Episcopal Church,” states that ‘‘all the travelers except 
Whatcoat arrived on December 17 at Perry Hall.’? Black, an English preacher from Nova Scotia, alludes 
to Perry Hall as the most spacious and elegant building he had seen in America. ‘“‘It is,’’ he says, 
“about fifteen miles from Baltimore. Mr. Gough, its owner, is a Methodist and supposed to be worth 
£100,000. He is not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. He has built a neat stone meeting house, enter- 
tains the circuit preachers and at times preaches himself, and this he continued to do during the war at 
the risk of his immense estate, as Asbury and his associates were for a time unjustly suspected of British 

-sympathies.’’ 

The Gough family was brought into its intimate relations with Methodism through the personal 
instrumentality and preaching of Asbury about 1775. It is stated that Mrs. Gough had been deeply 
impressed by the Methodist preaching, but her husband forbade her from attending the services again. 
Eventually, in a spirit of revelry, a gay company assembled at Perry Hall, elected to go to a Methodist 
meeting as a means of diversion. Asbury was the preacher, and the impression of the sermon on Gough 
was so profound that he could no longer enjoy his accustomed pleasures. Riding over his plantation he 
heard a negro from a neighboring estate ‘‘leading the devotion of his own slaves, and offering fervent 
thanksgivings for the blessings of their depressed lot.’? He was deeply touched, and imploring the 
mercy of God, received conscious pardon and peace. It is stated that immediately thereafter “both 
he and his wife now became members of the Methodist Society, and Perry Hall was henceforth an 
asylum for the itinerants and a ‘preaching place.’’’ Rankin visited it next year and says: ““T spent a 
most agreeable evening with them. A numerous family of servants were called in for exhortation and 
prayer, so that with them and the rest of the house we had a little congregation.” 

‘“Perry Hall,’’ writes Lednum, 
‘was the resort of much company, 
among whom the skeptic and the 
Romanist were sometimes found. 
Members ot the Baltimore bar, the 
elite of Maryland were there. But it 
mattered not who were there, when 
the bell rang for family devotion they 
were seen in the chapel, which Mr. 
Gough had erected * * * and if 
there was no male person present who 
could lead the devotions, Mrs. Gough 
read a chapter in the Bible, gave out 
a hymn, which was often raised and 
sung by the colored servants, after 
which she would engage in prayer. 
Asbury called her a ‘true daughter’ 
to himself.’’ 

Stevens makes the following com- 
ment: ‘‘Asbury’s usefulness in the 
Baltimore circuit at this time had PERRY Hat, Topay. 


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permanently important results. He gathered into the young societies not a few of those influential 
families whose opulence and social position gave material strength to Methodism through much of its 
early history in that city, while their exemplary devotion helped to maintain its primitive purity and 


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ower. 
: Mrs. Gough and her brother, Charles Ridgely Carnan, who, from 1815 to 1818, was Governor of 
Maryland as Charles Ridgely, were children of John Carnan and his wife, Achsah Ridgely, daughter of 
Colonel Charles Ridgely, who acquired the 10,000 acres comprising Hampton Manor, which passed to 
Captain Charles Ridgely, brother of Mrs. Carnan. Captain Ridgely built, from 1783 to 1790, the manor- 
house still existing; and, dying June 28, 1790, without children, devised Hampton to his nephew and 
namesake, Charles Ridgely Carnan, upon condition of changing his name to Ridgely. The uncle and 
nephew married sisters, Rebecca and Priscilla Dorsey, daughters of Caleb and Priscilla Dorsey, of Howard 
County. Rebecca was born in 1739 and died in 1812. Priscilla was born July 12, 1762. ‘The curator of 
the Woman’s College has secured, as a loan from members of this family, fine paintings of Mrs. Gough 
and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles (Priscilla) Ridgely, wife of the Governor. 

It is related by the collateral descendants of Mrs. Ridgely that when ‘‘Hampton’’ was opened, the 
lady of the manor caused a simple religious ceremony—a “‘prayer-meeting,’’ according to tradition—to be 
held on the second floor, while the future Governor, who did not take so kindly as his wife to the new 
Methodist doctrines, entertained his friends, in his own way, on the floor above. 

Harry Dorsey Gough, for a time, became estranged from the Church, but returned again, and, Bishop 
Simpson states, that he united with the Light Street Church, in Baltimore, in 1801. As a fitting tribute 
to this early Methodist, whose hospitality and generosity did so much to brighten the hard and strenuous 
lives of the fathers in the faith, we quote from Bishop Asbury’s Journal of May 3, 1808: ‘““We arrived at 
Perry Hall. Truly wecame to the house of mourning; the master is dying. Isaw and touched his dying 
body. Later, Mr. Gough died. When the corpse was moved, to be taken into the country for interment, 
many of the members of the General Conference walked in procession after it to the end of the town. 
Harry Dorsey Gough professed more than thirty years ago to be convicted and sanctified; that he did 
depart from God is well known, but it is equally certain that he was visibly restored. As Iwas the means 
of his first turning to God, so was I also of his return and restoration; certain prejudices he had taken up 
against myself and others, these I removed. In his last hours, which were painfully afflictive, he was 
much given up to God. Mr. Gough had inherited a large estate from a relation in England, and, having 
the means, he indulged his taste for gardening and the expensive embellishment of his country seat, Perry 
Hall, which was always hospitably open to visitors, particularly those who feared God. Although a man 
of plain understanding, Mr. Gough was a man much respected and beloved. As a husband, a father and 
a master, he was well worthy of imitation. His charities were as numerous as proper objects to a Chris- 
tian were likely to make them, and the souls and bodies of the poor were administered to in the manner 
of a Christian who remembered the precepts and followed the exampie of his divine Master.’ Asbury 
states that he and George Roberts preached Gough’s funeral sermon, June 5, to two thousand people. 

On March 19, 1809, Asbury’s Journal relates that he “‘went to the camp-meeting near Perry Hall, and 
I preached in the chapel. * * * AsTI rode by the groves of the elders of the Gough family, the image 
of my dear departed Harry Gough was very present to me.’’ There was erected in this vicinity, in 1807, 
by Harry Dorsey Gough, on ground donated by ‘“‘Governor’’ Charles Ridgely, a chapel, which was known 
as Camp Chapel. This structure continued until about 1872, when it was torn down, the present Camp 
Chapel having been erected 140 feet west of the original on the old camp ground. The only part of the 
old church to be seen in the new edifice is the stone steps, and it is suggested, that from certain marks of 
the quarry, it is a fair inference that these steps may have been brought from England, as no quarry of 
sandstone is thought to have been operated in Baltimore County in 1807. 

The deed from Governor Ridgely to the trustees of Camp Chapel for the lot was not executed until 
November 12, 1813. A camp-meeting, which was largely attended, was conducted for many years on 
adjoining ground, and a deed dated August 1, 1845, from Governor George Howard and his wife, who was 
a daughter of Governor Ridgely, conveyed ten acres of this land to the Camp-Meeting Committee of the 
Great Falls Circuit, which had been incorporated by act of the Legislature in December, 1844. Eight 
acres of this tract were sold February 15, 1869, to Samuel Pinkerton, and the remaining two acres are 
adjacent to the present chapel. 


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te@|OVELY LANE was one of the smaller streets in the old Baltimore Town as laid 


out in 1729. It extended east and west parallel to and a short distance south of 


the street now known as Baltimore street. The Meeting House or Chapel, which 
has become so famous, was erected on the north side at a point midway between 
South and Calvert streets, which is occupied by the handsome structure of the 
Merchants Club, built since the great fire of February 7.and 8, 1904. The street is now known 
as German street. 

On February 11, 1774, William Moore and Philip Rogers took up a subscription towards 
building a church and secured the lot for that purpose. In April, 1774, the foundation of the 
house was laid. In October of the same year the building was so far completed that Captain 
Thomas Webb, the faithful pioneer local preacher—who had already done such valiant service 
for his Creator and his country—dedicated the building, delivering his gospel message to the 
congregation assembled therein. He soon after was impelled to withdraw from America by the 
events of the Revolution, as he was a loyal British subject ; but he was one of the last English 
preachers to leave. On his return to England, after settling his family in Portsmouth, he 
traveled and preached extensively until his death, December 21, 1796. 

The famous ‘‘ Conventicle Act’’ was passed by the British Parliament in 1664. It forbade 
the assembly of more than five persons besides the resident members of a family for any religious 
purpose not according to the Book of Common Prayer. The spirit of this act survived at the 
time of building the Lovely Lane Meeting House, and a restrictive provision was made in the 
transfer of the site that it must be a two-story building, the purpose being to prevent the 


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semblance of a church edifice. This requirement was 
met by the construction of a gallery in the building. 
This fact is not generally known to those interested in 
the history of this old time cradle of the church, and 
has led to some errors in its pictorial representation, it 
being frequently shown as a house of one story. 

In May, 1776, the first Conference of Methodist 
preachers held in Baltimore assembled here, there having 
been three Conferences previously held in Philadelphia. 
From this centre the work of Methodism was carried on 
for a number of years with ever increasing success, and 
the selection of this humble building by Coke and 
Asbury in consultation with a number of other preachers 
as the place for the organization of the Methodist Socie- 
ties into a regularly established church, indicates its 
importance in those early days. 

ASBURY ORDAINED (FROM AN OLD PRINT). tees Here was launched the movement which in one 

hundred and twenty-four years has made the most mar- 
velous impression upon the Pe ciou thought of the world, without State aid, force of arms, or subtle 
diplomacy. 

Bishop Coke notes under date of January 2, 1785, at the conclusion of the work of the Conference, and 
after an opportunity to form an opinion from daily intercourse with the men who took part in the proceed- 
ings. ‘‘On Christmas eve we opened our Conference, which has continued ten days. I admire the 
American preachers. . . . We had near sixty of them present. The whole number is eighty-one. 
They are, indeed,-a body of devoted, disinterested men, but most of them young. ‘The spirit in which 
they conducted themselves in choosing elders was most pleasing. I believe they acted without being at 
all influenced either by friendship, resentment or prejudice, both in choosing and rejecting. The Lord 
was peculiarly present whilst I was preaching my two pastoral sermons. God was indeed pleased to 
honor me before the people. At six every morning one of the preachers gave the people a sermon; the 
weather was exceedingly cold and therefore we thought it best 
to indulge them by preaching an hour later than usual; and 
our morning congregations held out to the last. One of the 
week days at noon I made a collection towards assisting our 
brethren who are going to Nova Scotia, and our friends gene- 
rously contributed 504 currency (304 sterling).’’ Thus he 
writes of the men and events that made this building historic. 

In recent years the growth of the city has transformed the 
vicinity into what may be termed the financial centre of Bal- 
timore. Banks and trust companies, brokers’ offices and sky 
scraping office buildings surround the spot. The Stock 
Exchange adjoins it on the east, while the site itself has been 
occupied for many years by the Merchants’ Club, except 
during the period immediately following the fire. 

Upon the front of the club house which was burned in 
1904, there was erected some years ago a bronze tablet record- 
ing the historic founding of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
on that spot. This tablet was rescued after the fire and is 
preserved. It is anticipated that the new club house will be 
marked by the same or a similar tablet to conform to the 
architectural style of the building. The Merchants’ Club is 
a down-town organization frequented by many of the best 
and most substantial business men of the city, who lunch 
there at midday. 


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N December, 1784, the most important event in the history of early American Metho- 
dism occurred, which has given to the Lovely Lane Meeting House, and to the 
preachers assembled on that occasion, a commanding position in the religious 
history of this country. 

The Methodist Societies in the United States were here organized into the 
“Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America,’’ and Rev. Thomas Coke, 
LL. D., and Rev. Francis Asbury became the first superintendents of the church, a title after- 
ward changed to that of bishop. 

This step was the result of a demand of the American Methodists for an ordained Wesleyan 
ministry, and they had scarcely been prevented from setting up an independent ministry for 
themselves. The Conference of 1780, held in Baltimore, determined ‘‘to continue in close com- 
munion with the American section of the English Church,’’ the Methodists having no ordained 
ministers among them. But in 1784, America was independent, and the thriving Methodist 
Societies could not be persuaded to remain in ‘‘close communion”’ with the church, which was 
more or less closely identified with a foreign and recently hostile country. 


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It may not be inappropriate to state here several historic facts that had an important bearing upon 
the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and doubtless aided materially in fostering its rapid 
growth. The War of the Revolution brought about a condition in which the ministers of the Established 
Church of England as represented in the colonies found themselves in an unenviable and awkward posi- 
tion. ‘They were not only subjects of the English crown, but also ordained ministers in the mother church, 
and under the circumstances many returned to England during the war. Thus the people were in a large 
measure left without duly authorized clergy to administer the sacraments. Meanwhile the Methodist 
societies were growing, while the Established Church was practically cut off from its head, and conse- 
quently not keeping pace with the needs of the people in religious matters. The organization of the 
Methodists into a church with ordained deacons, elders and superintendents, afterward designated as 
bishops, would seem to have supplied the wants of the people, and under the aggressive leadership and 
indomitable energy of Asbury and his associates, had swept rapidly over the land, before the subsequent 
severance of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America from the English had taken place. 

When the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church took place, there were fifteen thousand 
Methodists in America, who, through the preachers that represented them, felt that they should no longer 
be deprived of their rights and privileges as members of the Church of God. ‘To be exact, the Conference 
of 1784, reported 14,988 Methodists, with 83 itinerent preachers, besides several hundred local preachers. 
Nearly all the clergy of the Church of England had left the country. In Virginia, twenty-three out of 
ninety-five parishes were extinct or forsaken; and of the remaining seventy-two, thirty-four were destitute 
of pastors: while of her ninety-eight clergymen, only twenty-eight remained. 

Many of the Methodist societies had been months, some of them years, without the opportunity to 
receive the sacraments. Five years before, in 1779, the preachers in the South proceeded to ordain them- 
selves by the hands of three of their senior members, unwilling that their people should longer be denied 
the Lord’s Supper, and their children and probationary members the right of baptism. Asbury, with 
difficulty, succeeded in persuading them to suspend the administration of the sacraments until he could 
obtain advice from Wesley. He urged Wesley to send an ordained minister to America who could supply 


the painful lack of service. 


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THOMAS COKE 


The establishing of the independence of the Ameri- 
can colonies was largely responsible for the establishing 
of the new church. Wesley, acting upon the rights 
which he believed were vested in him ‘‘by the apostolic 
constitution, by the constitution of the Church of Eng-_ 
land, and also by the immediate providence and grace of 
God,’’ prepared to set up the form and order of the 
church, as he understood it, for the government and fel- 
lowship of his spiritual children in the United States. 
Accordingly, he ordained Dr. Thomas Coke, his most 
distinguished assistant and his most trusted friend, as 
“superintendent of the Methodist societies in America,’’ 
and sent him thus accredited to ordain Francis Asbury 
to a like office, and thus establish the Episcopal form of 
church government among the Methodists of the new 
world. Coke was a young presbyter of the Church of 
England, and curate of the parish of South Petherton. 
He met Wesley at Kingston, in August, 1776, and soon 
attached himself to the work of the great Methodist 
leader, and became in his day, one of the most promi- 
nent helpers in the cause. 

With Coke, Wesley sent Richard Whatcoat and 
Thomas Vasey, who on September, 1784, were ordained 
by John Wesley, according to the custom of the English 
Church, as deacons, and on the following day as pres- 
byters or elders, assisted by Dr. Coke and Rev. James 
Creighton. 


Leaving England September 18, 1784, Coke, accompanied by Whatcoat and Vasey, landed in New 


York November 2, and on the night of his arrival 
preached in Wesley Chapel—the John Street Church. 
He rode to Philadelphia and then proceeded southward. 
On November 14, he was at Barratt’s Chapel, Kent 
County, Delaware, where he and Asbury met for the 
first time. Here the plans for the Conference to meet in 
Baltimore on the ensuing Christmas were determined. 
On December 17, the chief participants assembled at 
Perry Hall, in Baltimore County, a few miles northeast 
of Baltimore. The work before them was thoroughly 
discussed, and in the intervening week the preliminary 
plans were outlined, and prepared for the action of the 
preachers assembling from all parts of the country. 

On Friday, December 24, 1784, the little company 
rode to the city, and at ten o’clock in the morning opened 
the first American General Conference, since most gen- 
erally known as the “‘Christmas Conference.’’ 

Bishop Coke, on taking the chair, presented his 
Letters Credential, and in accordance with Mr. Wesley’s 
design, it was, in the language of Asbury, 
form ourselves into an Episcopal Church, and to have 
superintendents, elders and deacons.”’ 

Asbury declined to accept the superintendency on 
Mr. Wesley’s appointment, unless, in addition thereto, °' 
his brethren should elect him to that office; where-j, 


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upon, we are informed by the historians, that both 
Asbury and Coke were unanimously elected, and_on 
the ‘s *second _ day of the session, _Asbury_was ordained 
deacon by Dr. Coke, assisted by Elders \ Whatcoat and 
Vasey. On the third day, which was Sunday, Asbury 
was ordained elder, and on Monday he was conse- 
crated as superintendent by Bishop Coke, his friend 
Rev. Philip William Otterbein, of the German Reform 
Church, and the elders assisting in the service. ‘Tues- 
day, Wednesday and Thursday were spent in enacting 
rules of discipline and the election of preachers to 
orders. It was agreed that the liturgy, which had 
been prepared by Mr. Wesley for the use of the Amer- 
ican church, should be readin the congregations; and 
that the sacraments and ordinations should be cele- 
brated according to the Episcopal form. On Friday, 
several deacons were ordained, and on Sunday, the 
second day of January, 1785, twelve elders were 
ordained who had been previously ordained as deacons, 
and the Conference ended ‘‘in great peace and 
unanimity.’’ 

Until the time of the Christmas Conference, the 
“Wesleyan Minutes’’ had been recognized as the law 
of the American Societies. In the preliminary con- 
sultation at Perry Hall that code was revised and 
adapted to the new form of the American Church, and 
this revision, having been adopted by the Christmas 


THOMAS VASEY 


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RICHARD WHATCOAT 


Conference, was incorporatedywith’ Mr.,Wesley’s 
revised edition of the ‘‘Liturgy,’’ which he 
called the ‘‘Sunday Service,’’ and was published 
in 1785 as the “Discipline of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.’’ The Liturgy fell into dis- 
use in a few years, but the Discipline, as regu- 
lated and modified by the succeeding General 
Conferences, has been the governing code of 
Methodism to the present time. 

During the period when the number of 
Methodist preachers in America was small, there 
was but one conference held each year, but in 
1779, they had so increased as to render it in- 
convenient for all to meet in one place, and from 
that time till 1784 two conferences were held, 
one in Baltimore and one in Virginia, though 
the second was considered as an adjournment of 
the first. The Baltimore Conference, being of 
the longest standing and made up of the oldest 
preachers, took precedence of the Virginia Con- 
ference, especially in the making of rules for the 
societies. The Christmas Conference of 1784 
was called a General Conference, and the next 
General Conference was held in November, 1792. 
From the latter date the General Conferences 
have met every four years, and of these general 


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The Lost Portrait 


HIS PORTRAIT of Francis Asbury, which now hangs in the parlor of the First Church, is the first 
picture of him ever painted. The work was done in 1794 in Baltimore by an artist named Polk. 
Asbury’s modesty in the matter of having his portrait painted was overcome in this instance by the strategy 
of his warm friend, James McCannon, a merchant tailor of this city. Asbury was solicitous about the 
need of clothes for some of his preachers, and McCannon volunteered to make each of the preachers a vest, 


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** provided you (Asbury) will promise me to do what I wish greatly to be done.”? Asbury at first refused 
to bind himself, but afterward consented. McCannon’s wish was for the painting of the portrait, which 
was done. The picture was lost for many years, but was eventually found doing service as a fire-place 
screen with a stove-pipe hole cut through the right hand. It had been deposited with a servant of 


McCannon’s for safe-keeping, and passing to later generations—who had less veneration for the Bishop—it 


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became delapidated, and was put to the base use from which it was rescued by Rev. Dr. Geo. C. M. 
Roberts. It has been repaired and is one of the treasured relics of the church. 


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gatherings, which are the highest court as 
well as the law-making bodies of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, a greater number 
have assembled in Baltimore than in any 
other place in the world. 

The General Conferences of 1792, 1796, 
1800, 1804, 1808, 1816, 1820, 1824, 1840 
and 1876 have met in this city, so that dur- 
ing the great formative period of the church 
it is undoubtedly true that Baltimore was 
the American rallying point for Methodism. 

The picture of the Christmas Confer- 
ence in session at the ordination of Francis 
Asbury as [general superintendent, which 
heads this article, is from a painting made 
many years ago. The purpose of the artist 
was to portray a historical scene and the 
persons}who took part in the event repre- 
sented, and exercising a certain license, he 
filled in his background with characters 
identified with early Methodism, who were 

CapTaIn THOMAS WEBB’S GREEK TESTAMENT assumed to be present. The roll of the 
(From the Woman’s College Collection) Conference is not preserved, but the fol- 
lowing persons are known to have been 
present: Thomas Coke, LL.D., Francis Asbury, Richard Whatcoat, Thomas Vasey, Freeborn Garrettson, 
William Gill, Reuben Ellis, Le Roy Cole, Richard Ivey, James O’Kelly, John Haggerty, Nelson Reed, 
James O’Cromwell, Jeremiah Lambert, John Dickins, William Glendenning, Francis Poythress, Joseph 
Everett, William Black, of U. S., William Phoebus and Thomas Ware. It has been supposed, from their 
standing and the proximity of their circuits, that the following also were in attendance: Edward:Drom- 
goole, Caleb B. Peddicord, Thomas S. Chew, Joseph Cromwell, John Major, Philip Cox, Samuel Rowe, 
William Partridge, Thomas Foster, George 
Mair, Samuel Dudley, Adam Cloud, 
Michael Ellis, James White, Jonathan 
Forrest, Joseph Wyatt, Philip Bruce, John 
Magary, William Thomas, John Baldwin, 
Woolman Hickson, Thomas Haskins, Ira 
Ellis, John Easter, Peter Moriarty, Enoch 
Watson, Lemuel Green, Thomas Curtis, 
William Jessup, Wilson Lee, Thomas 
Jackson, James Riggin, William Ringold, 
Isaac Smith, Matthew Greentree, William 
Lynch, Thomas Bowen, Moses Park, § 
William Cannon and Richard Swift. These | 
would make up the full number—sixty— @ 
known to have responded to the call. 

Were it possible, the lives of all these 
men should be recorded among the annals 
of Methodism, but we may only refer briefly 
here to the more conspicuous characters— | 
Coke, Whatcoat, Vasey and Otterbein, and | 
will hear more of Asbury later. 

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1736, and converted in his twenty-second 


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year. For eight years he labored as a 
class leader in Wednesbury, Staffords- 
shire, and in 1769, at the Leeds Confer- 
ence, was accepted as a local preacher. 
He filled circuits in England, Ireland 
and Wales, and, conforming to Dr. 
Coke’s wish, came to America with the 
latter. In 1800, the health of Bishop 
Asbury being impaired, Whatcoat was 
elected Bishop to assist him. He died 
in Delaware July 5, 1806. 

Thomas Vasey entered the ranks of 
the Methodist itinerancy in 1775. To 
do so he sacrificed the favor of a wealthy 
uncle who had adopted him. He had 
traveled nine years when chosen by Mr. 
Wesley to accompany Dr. Coke to 
America. Two years later he accepted 
ordination from Bishop White of Phila- 
delphia, of the Established Church of 
England, and returned to that country. 
In 1789, however, he came back to Meth- 
odism, continuing his labors twenty-two 
years. Hedied at Leeds Dec. 27, 1826. 

Rev. Philip William Otterbein came to America as a minister of the German Reformed Church, but 
after some years of service among the American Lutherans, he organized, at Howard’s Hill, in Baltimore, 
an Evangelical Reformed Church, which became the center of a conference of churches under the name 
of United Brethren, of which he and the Rev. Martin Boehm, father of the late Rev. Henry Boehm, were 
the first superintendents or bishops, Otterbein and Asbury were on the most friendly terms, and the 
churches of the United Brethren were always freely offered to the Methodist preachers. The old Otter- 
bein Church, corner of Conway and Sharp streets, which was a landmark in South Baltimore for many 
years, was replaced by a public school about a dozen years ago. 

Thomas Coke was one of the greatest men identified with early Methodism. He was born in Brecon, 
Wales, September 9, 1747, the son of a surgeon, who was mayor of the town At sixteen young Coke 
was a student at Jesus College, Oxford. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, entered the 
ministry, and as curate of South Petherton his 
earnest zeal gained for him the name of “‘Meth- 
odist.”’ Ina few years he joined Mr. Wesley’s 
itinerants, and in 1778 he was appointed to the 
Old Foundry in London, becoming Wesley’s 
chief confidential adviser until the great leader’s 
death. He made five visits to America, and as 
one of the first two superintendents co-operated 
with Asbury in the supervision of the American 
Church. He wrote a commentary on the Holy 
Scriptures; was president for thirty years of the 
Irish Conference, to which he was appointed in 
1782; inaugurated the Wesleyan Home Mission- 
ary Society; established missions in 1811 among 
the French prisoners of war, and organized a 
great missionary movement for India. He died 
May 3, 1814, while on his way, and was buried OTTERBEIN CHURCH, BALTIMORE. 
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under their aus- 
pices throughout 
the United States. 
The forerunner of all these in 
America, and the first to bear 
the mark of advanced or 
higher instruction,was Cokes- 
bury College, located at 
Abingdon, Harford County, 
Md. The founding of this 
college was one of the topics 
discussed by Coke and As- 
bury upon their first meeting 
at Barratt’s Chapel, Novem- 
ber 14, 1784, andzthey began 
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pledged. Harry Dorsey Gough gave 30 guineas, and the Con- 
ference contributed £45 and authorized the continuation of the 
work, naming the institution Cokesbury, a composite word 
combining the names of the first two general superintendents. 
An announcement of the curriculum and the purposes of the 
management was made and published in the Discipline. 

The site comprised four acres of land, which was purchased 
from Mr. Dallam, at Abingdon, for £60, on May 30,1785. It 
was adjacent to a church recently erected. This place had been 
selected at the time of the Conference, for Coke upon visiting 
Abingdon January 5, 1785, gave orders “‘that the materials 
should be procured for the erecting of the college.’’ In describ- 
ing this site he wrote: ‘“ The place delights me more than ever. 
There is not, I believe, a point of it from which the eye has not 
a view of at least 20 miles, and in some parts the prospect 
extends even to 50 miles in length. The water front forms one 
of the most beautiful views in the United States. The Chesa- 
peake Bay, in all its grandeur, with a fine navigable river, the 


Susquehannah, which empties into it, lying exposed to view 
COKESBURY BELL IN WoMAN’s COLLEGE through a great extent of country.”’ 

Coke sailed from Baltimore for England June 2, 1785, and 
on June 5, Asbury laid the corner-stone of the college and preached the foundation sermon. The 
college hall was erected at a cost of £4,000. It was 108 feet in length, 40 feet in width, faced east and 
west, and was three stories in height. The east and west ends had on each floor two rooms, 25 by 20 feet. 
On the first floor in the centre was the college hall, 40 feet square; on the second floor two school rooms, 
and on the third floor two bed rooms. The dimensions and style of architecture were said to be “‘ fully 
equal if not superior to anything of the kind in the country.”’ 

No picture of the building is known to be in existence. On October 18, 1895, a pilgrimage was made 
to the site by a large number of Methodists, and memorial stones were placed at the corners of the founda- 
tion. We abstract from the historical monograph read by Dr. Bernard C. Steiner upon that occasion the 
following details: ‘‘As soon as under roof and a room or two finished, a preparatory school with fifteen 
scholars was opened taught by Mr. Freeman Marsh, a Quaker. For president Wesley suggested Rev. 
Mr. Heath, master of a German school in Kidderminster. On December 
23, 1786, Asbury and the trustees voted to accept the recommendation 
and called Mr. Heath. ‘The vote was forwarded to Dr. Coke, then in 
England, and we present a fac-simile of his letter, offering the position 
to Mr. Heath on January 23, 1787. 

Mr. Heath was to be allowed £60 sterling “‘ lodging in the college, 
board, washing, etc., for himself and family. He was to have two 
assistant masters who must be unmarried. Mr. Heath accepted, and 
with Mr. Patrick McClosky, as a teacher, came to America in the 
autumn of 1787. (The fac-simile letter of John Wesley, shown on page 
14 of this book, was addressed to him prior to his leaving England. 
This and the letter from Dr. Coke, mentioned above, may be seen in 
The Woman’s College of Baltimore.) 

In September, 1787, Asbury was at Cokesbury, fixing the price of 
board and the time for opening the college and examining students. 
In December he returned to preside at Heath’s inauguration and 
preached on three successive days. 

The college opened with twenty-five students under the instruction 
of Messrs. Heath, McClosky and Marsh. To manage the property 
fifteen trustees were selected, of whom five were traveling preachers, 
five residents of Baltimore, two each from the Eastern Shore and Dela- 


WILLIAM WATTERS’ CLOCK 
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56 BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 


ORIGINAL PORTRAIT OF BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY, BEQUEATHED TO THE, 
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BY Mrs. SARAH H. ATTMORE, OF STRASBURG, 
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. THE PORTRAIT WAS PAINTED DUR-— 
ING BISHOP ASBURY’S LAST VISIT TO STRASEURG BOROUGH, WHICH, 
ACCORDING TO HIS JOURNAL, WAS IN 1813. FATHER BOEHM AND OTHERS, 
WHO HAVE SEEN BISHOP ASBURY, SAY IT IS A VERY FAITHFUL LIKENESS 
OF HIM. 

THE PORTRAIT IS PAINTED ON WOOD, AND IS REPRODUCED SHOWING 
THE RAVAGES OF TIME. 


BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 57 


Coke said the college was to unite “‘genuine 
religion and extensive learning; to serve our 
pious friends and our married preachers in the 
proper education of their sons’’ At another 
time he wrote that it was for the sons of our 
preachers, the sons of our friends, our young 
men (preachers) to qualify and perfect them- 
selves from time to time in the English language 
and for orphans.’’ 

_In January, 1788, Wesley urged that the 
model of the Kingswood School in England be 
followed. The announcement of Cokesbury 

eet Gua per College made from year to year recited that 

‘the students will be instructed in English, 

Latin, Greek, logic, rhetoric, history, geography, natural philosophy and astronomy. To these languages 

and sciences will be added, when the finances of our college will admit of it, the Hebrew, French and 

German languages. But our first object shall be to answer the designs of Christian education by forming 

the minds of the youth through Divine aid to wisdom and holiness by instilling into their minds the 

principles of true religion—speculative, experimental and practical.’’ Children of seven years were 

received. Among the regulations was a curious provision that the students must not indulge in play, 

and if they went swimming they must ‘‘not remain in the water more than a minute, one at a time, nor 
bathe in Bush River.’’ 

Marsh quit in 1788, and McClosky resigned soon after, but taught again about 1790. Dr. Hall, of 
Abingdon, succeeded Heath as president, and being a favorably-known native of the State, increased the 
number of pupils from 30 in 1789 to 70 in 1791. Dr. Hall’s associates were Rev. John Hargrove, who 
afterward established the first Swedenborgian church in Baltimore; Rev. Joseph Toy, teacher of mathe- 
matics and English literature, and Charles Tait, who taught French, looked after the charity foundation, 
and who subsequently was United States Senator from Georgia and United States District Judge in Alabama. 

Coke wrote that these instructors did honor to the institution, but having become involved in debt, it 
had a hard struggle for existence. The Conference, voted $4,000 of the profits of the Book Concern for its 
aid in 1792, and visited it annually. Finally deciding to incorporate, the managemet obtained a Charter 
from the General Assembly, December 26, 1794, and pending efforts to strengthen the institution the 
collegiate department was suspended in 1795, and only a preparatory school conducted. 

A fire attributed to incendiary origin burned the entire building, involving a sacrifice according to 
Asbury’s statement of £10,000. He records the 
date of the fire as December 7, 1795. 

The college bell was taken from the ruins 
and placed on the chapel adjoining, where it 
remained until supplanted by a new bell in 
recent years. It now hangs in The Woman’s 
College of Baltimore. 

Through a subscription raised in Baltimore 
the college was soon reopened in an assembly 
room adjoining Light Street Church, but this 
was also destroyed by fire December 4, 1796, 
and Asbury estimated the loss, including the 
church, from fifteen to twenty thousand pounds. 

The school was never reopened. This 
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>t) DOZEN years ago, there was torn down to make way for improvements, an old 
building in Dallas Street, near Kastern Avenue. ‘This structure was known to 


history as Strawberry Alley Chapel, the first Methodist church to be commenced 
in Baltimore,although 
not completed and 
occupied until after Lovely Lane 
Chapel was dedicated. Strawberry 
Alley Chapel was on the west side 
of the street, midway in the 
block. It was begun in November 
1773, being one of the first two 
Methodist meeting houses built 
within the territory now comprising 
Baltimore City. Bishop Asbury 
noted in his journal, January 3, 
1773, ‘‘Rode to Baltimore, and had 
a large congregation at the house 
of Captain Paten at the Point. 
Many of the principal people were 
there, and the Lord enabled me to 
speak with power. At night I 
preached in town. 


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Asbury thus referred to Baltimore and Fell’s Point 
as “‘the Town’’ and ‘‘the Point,’’ the two communities 
being about one and a half miles apart. Strawberry 
Alley Chapel, which was begun in the autumn of 1773, 
was to provide a meeting place for the latter, and Lovely 
Lane was for the former locality. 

The chapel at “The Point’’ was a large, low brick 
building, with an old fashioned tub pulpit, and a sound- 
ing board above it. The building was forty feet front 
by sixty feet deep. The ceilings were low and plain. 
The only ornament was a wide half circle of blue painted 
on the wall behind the pulpit, on which,.in letters of 
gold, appeared the words, ‘“‘THOU, GOD SEEST ME.’’ 

Legal complications arising after the foundations 
were laid, delayed its completion until after Lovely Lane 
Chapel was occupied. 

Our illustration of this historic structure is from a 
sketch made before the building was demolished. The 
sketch is thought to be the only one in existence, and 
was made at the suggestion of Mr. Wm. M. Winks, super- 
a intendent of the East Baltimore Station Sunday School. 
— =? mae yeaa About this time. the church was turned over to the 
colored people, and the original congregation built its 
new church at Eastern avenue (then Wilks street) and 
Bethel street. It retained the name of Wilks Street 
Methodist Episcopal Church until 1871, when large improvements were made in its building, and its 
name was changed to Eastern Avenue M. E. Church. The rededication took place April 25, 1861. 

In 1892, this property at the northeast corner of Eastern avenue and Bethel street was sold, and 
is now occupied by the Polish congregation of Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church. 

The Methodist congregation erected a beautiful stone edifice of Gothic architecture at the corner of 
Baltimore and Washington streets. At this time, the Jackson Square Methodist Episcopal Church 
sold its property, and united with the Eastern Avenue Congregation to form a new congregation, which 
then took the name of East Baltimore Station, which thus becomes the direct descendant of the 
Strawberry Alley foundation. 

From the great revivals held in the old Wilks Street or Eastern Avenue Church, have sprung many of 
the churches in the eastern section of Baltimore, which have become famous in the local annals of the 
denomination. Among the more noted of these are Caroline Street 
Church, which was dedicated July 19, 1819. In 1824, it was 
called East Baltimore Station, but becoming independent in 1844, 
was incorporated as the Caroline Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church. The same year Jefferson Street Congregation was 
organized as a branch from the Caroline Street Church. 
Broadway M. E. Church is another noted branch from the Wilks 
Street Congregation. 

The name of Strawberry alley was changed to Dallas street, 
and the congregation of colored people that occupied it was known 
as the Dallas Street Methodist Episcopal Congregation. In 1874, 
the centennial of the church was celebrated in the old edifice, which 
was soon afterward abandoned for religious use; the congregation 
adopted the name of Centennial Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
under that name erected a building at Caroline and Bank streets in 
1877. Until it was torn down, the old Strawberry Alley Chapel 
was used as a hall for meetings of lodges and councils of various —- Fast BALTIMORE STATION M. E. CHURCH 
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1HE rapid growth of Methodism rendered the Lovely Lane Meeting House too limited 
to accommodate the people. Bishop Coke wrote in his journal, February 26— 
March 6, 1785. 
“The work of 
God does indeed 
prosper in this town. ‘The 
preaching house will not con- 
tain even my week days’ con- 
gregations, and at 5 in the 
morning the chapel is about 
half full. I think I have pre- 
vailed on our friends in this 
place to build a new church. 
They have already subscribed 
about 5004 sterling.’’ Ar- 
rangements were subsequently 
made for the erection of a large 
and commodious st1ucture in 
the center of the city. The 
spot selected was on the north- 
west corner of Light street 


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1785, and on May 21, 1786, was dedicated by 
Bishop Asbury. It was built of bricks and was 
forty-six feet front by seventy feet deep. 

This edifice was the first Light Street Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. It was destroyed by 
fire December 4, 1796, and at the same time the 
second Cokesbury College, which stood on the 
southwest corner of Light street and Wine alley 
was burned. No picture of these buildings is 
known to be in existence. 

The site of the college building was selected 
for the place of the reconstructed Light Street 
Church, that is, at the southwest corner of Light 
street and Wine alley, whereas the church had 
formerly stood on the northwest corner. This 

LIGHT STREET PARSONAGE. spot is now in the center of the intersection of 

Light and German streets. The lot for the 

church was purchased at a cost of $5,360. On October 29, 1797, about ten months after the loss of the 

first church, Bishop Asbury dedicated the new church. This structure was in existence until 1872, 

although remodeled and extensively improved from time to time. It was then demolished in connection 

with the extension of German street, business houses having grown up on all sides and the residence sec- 
tion having receded. ‘The last church service held in it was on September 23, 1869. 

In 1843 a Sunday-School room was built on Light street south of the church. Bishop Waugh laid 
the corner stone. This building was designed to accommodate Asbury Sunday School. The entire 
group of structures—church, parsonage and Sunday-School room played a conspicuous part during the 
eatlier years of Methodism. These buildings have passed from existence, but there are no other places 
identified with the early history of Methodism that truly 
deserve a more honored niche in the memory of the past. 

This foundation not only became, as it were, the 
mother church of Baltimore, but a great central rallying 
point for many years where history was made and which 
played an ‘important part in the development of Meth- 
odism throughout the country. 

Many churches in Baltimore trace their origin to 
the foundations laid by the Light street church or the 
City Station as this charge was designated in later years. 
The first of this goodly number was the Methodist 
church erected in 1789 in the section known as Old 
Town, and on the site of the present Exeter Street 
Church, south of Gay street. This is said to have been 
the third Society and fourth Methodist church in the city 
and the only one still occupying its original site. 

In 1843 a strong colony went from the Light street 
church and established a new center at the northeast 
corner of Charles and Fayette streets, erecting a large 
and imposing edifice under the name of the Charles 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church. About 1869 the 
congregation sold its building to the Light street church 
for $110,000, and in 1870 began the erection of the mag- 
nificent Mount Vernon Place Church, adjoining the 
Washington monument, at a cost of $375,000, changing 
its name to suit the mew location. The church is said 
to be one of the most beautiful in America. The Light LIGHT STREET CHURCH WHEN TORN DowN, 1872. 


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street congregation occupied its Charles street 
church for the first time Sunday, March 17, 
1872. This building is also notable as the birth- 
place of the Baltimore Branch of the Woman’s 
Foreign Missionary Society. The change in 
location made the former name of the Light 
street congregation inappropriate or misleading, 
so that the designation of First Church was 
adopted and continued with the subsequent re- 
moval to the present site, at the northwest corner 
of St. Paul and ‘Twenty-second street. 

The massive and imposing temple erected 
on this site was built to harmonize with and 
as part of the beautiful architectural plan of 
The Woman’s College adjoining on the north. 
This splendid church edifice, said to have cost 
$250,000, is the direct descendant, historically 
speaking, of the humble and unpretentious 
Lovely Lane Meeting House. The First Church 
structure includes the church proper, a chapel, church parlor and parsonage. ‘The chapel was dedicated 
November 6, 1885, and the church November 6, 1887. 

But the great interest which centers in Light Street Church is not confined to the church building only. 
In the rear and to the westward was located ‘‘The Preacher’s House, or Parsonage,’’ which has also dis- 
appeared with the church. ‘This was occupied by the pastors of the church and for many decades was the 
temporary home of bishops and other visiting ministers. It was plain and unpretentious, but comfortable 
and retired. Here Bishop Asbury made his headquarters and kept most of his books. In this building 
was located a room famous as ‘‘The Conference Room.’’ It was in the upper or third floor, and was acces- 
sible from the ground by an outside stairway from the church yard. 

The parsonage had an interesting history. It was first used as a private academy for the instruction 
of youth. In the year 1801 the Male Free School of Baltimore was organized and occupied the place for 
school purposes, until the institution was removed to a new building on Courtland street erected in 1812. 

In the year 1810 the Baltimore Annual Conference assembled for the first time in what became known as 
the Conference Room, which was subsequently used for many conferences and other religious assemblages. 

A historian writing many years ago of this church and parsonage says, ‘‘No place for divine worship 
is more generally known among the Metho- 
dist community and none has ever received 
more marked respect than this old citadel of 
American Methodism. ‘This denominational 
interest in Light Street Church has arisen in 
part from the numerous Conferences, both 
annual and general, which have convened 
therein. 

“The decisions of the pioneer ministry, 
which were enunciated in that church, and 
which aided in giving form and stability to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America, have entered into the perma- 
nent history of the times in which they lived. 
Probably more of the great lights of Method- 
ism from all sections of the United States have 
held forth the Word of Life in Light Street 
Church than in any other place of public 
worship on the American continent.’’ 


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first Church. 
By Rev. HH. Frank Rall, D. D., Pastor. 


The early history of the First Church has been elsewhere recorded. It is inseparable from the history 
of Baltimore Methodism and from the story of the general church. For here, in the Lovely Lane Meeting 
House, the Christmas Conference was held, where the organized church had its birth. In the old preachers’ 
room of its Light street home there occurred year after year those annual meetings which preceded the 
delegated General Conference. The church is still “City Station’? in the conference minutes, and in its 
articles of incorporation, dating from February 12, 1810, it is called the ‘’ Methodist Episcopal Church in 
the city and precints of Baltimore.”’ 

Early in its history its numerous daughters began to set up house-keeping for themselves. With but 
slight intermission, however, it has remained a station or circuit with more than one preaching place, and 
the conference records report the assignments of from two to five preachers to this charge each year. With 
the more frequent changes of the early days, the result has been such a list of pastors as probably no other 
church in this country can name. 

For the student of Methodist history, perhaps nothing in this city will bring up so vividly the record 
of historic ground as this list of names as they stand written on the windows of the First Church, two 
hundred and eleven in number, excluding repetitions. Here is Francis Asbury, first on the list, William 
Watters, the first native American preacher, and Richard Owens, the first native local preacher. Seven 
bishops are recorded here, Asbury, Whatcoat, Roberts, Waugh, Soule, Emory, and Bishop Alphaeus 
Wilson of the Church South who is still living, Here is Jesse Lee, who had more than a bishop’s title on 
which to rest fame. And here are Freeborn Garrettson, Ezekiel Cooper, Daniel Hitt, Stephen George 
Roszel, John Summierfield, John A. Collins. Here is Jacob Gruber, the eccentric, and here are names like 
Nicholas Snethen and Joshua Wells, which call up special chapters in our early history. 

The year 1883 marked a turning point in the history of First Church. In that year Dr. John F. 
Goucher was appointed as pastor. ‘The mother of many was alone. ‘The single depleted congregation was 
worshipping in the Charles Street edifice, and this was to be torn down for the widening of Fayette Street. 
Under Dr. Goucher’s leadership the change was made which ensured for the old church its renewed career. 
He saw the importance for Methodism of its present location and planned accordingly. The first year 
showed less than one hundred members. At the close of his pastorate, in 1890, the station had four churches 
and over 1200 members. ‘The splendid edifice of First Church, with chapel and parsonage, had been 
erected, and within the same time Twenty-fourth Street, Guilford Avenue, and Oxford, making a property 
of a total value of $300,000. 

In the years succeeding, First Church has made constant progress. Its pastors have been Dr. E. D. 
Huntley, now superannuated, Dr. T. P. Frost, now at Evanston, Dr. Hugh Johnston, who came here 
from Metropolitan, Washington, and Dr. H. Frank Rall, who is now entering his fifth year. 

During this time Guilford Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street have become independent. Despite this 
fact, its membership now numbers nearly 1300. ‘The net increase during the present pastorate has been 
nearly 800. In point of membership and in missionary and benevolent contributions, it holds its place 
as *‘ First Church’’ in the Conference. 

The present structure is perhaps the most imposing piece of church architecture in the city. It was 
designed, together with the adjacent buildings of the Woman’s College, by Stanford White, acting for the 
firm of McKim, Meade & White, and with these buildings forms an unequalled architectural ensemble. 
The church is considered the purest specimen of ecclesiastical Etruscan in the country. Its main tower 
was modeled after the campanile of Santa Mariain Porto Fuori, in Ravenna. It is 165 feet high and 
6,000 tons of stone were used in its construction. On evenings when services are being held the tower is 
illuminated, and the lights form a cross which may be seen from a long distance. ‘The pulpit is from 
Santo Apollinaries in Nuova in Ravenna, and the windows reproduce celebrated mosaics from the mauso- 
leum of Gallo Placida in the same city. 

The unique ceiling is an exact reproduction of the heavens as they appeared at three o’clock on the 
morning of the dedication of the church. The chart of stars from which this was made was prepared by 
the noted astronomer, Prof. Simon Newcomb. 


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Centennial Eutaw Street Church 


May, 1908 


Street Church still retains its old name and site, being located on the spot where 
it was dedicated by Francis Asbury, May 8, 1808. One of the interesting events 
ng the period of the meeting of the General Conference in Baltimore will be 

the celebration of the centennial of the dedication. The illustration heading this 
page shows the church as it appeared 
when first built. Eutaw Street 
Church was the first Methodist con- 
gregation organized north of Balti- 
more street. A lot was chosen for its 
building on the outskirts of the town, 
on Eutaw, near Mulberry street, and 
the above chapel erected on the rear 
end of it. ‘The growth of the congre- 
gation was gradual, and it was not 
until 1853 that the present front was 
added to the original building, greatly 
increasing its capacity. By this ad- 
dition suitable rooms were secured on 
the ground floor for lectures and 
classes, and a large Sunday school 
room above. When finished it was 
said to have been the best-equipped : 
church in the city. The church was Eutaw STREET M. E. CHURCH, 1908. 


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part of the City Station until 1869, Like others 
of the early churches, the removal of the popula- 
tion has made it difficult to maintain the work, and 
plans are under way to secure an endowment fund 
to aid in the cause. The Baltimore Annual Con- 
ference, at its session held in Washington recently, 
appointed a special committee to consider the 
matter, and adopted the following: ‘‘In view of 
the history of this church and its work as part of 
the Methodism of Baltimore, and the possibility of 
future useful service as a center of evangelistic 
work and the headquarters of general Methodism 
in Baltimore, this Conference recommends that 
proper steps be taken by the trustees of Eutaw (1) 
to put Kutaw Street Church in such relation to 
Baltimore Methodism as will perpetuate its history 
and efficiency by securing an endowment through 


gifts from our people; (2) that this Conference appoint a committee of five of its members to confer with 


the trustees of Eutaw.”’ 


This noted church cherishes the fact as a precious memory that the body of Bishop Asbury was 
placed in a vault under its pulpit, where it remained from 1816 to 1854, and was then removed to Mount 


Olivet Cemetery. 


Bishop Emory’s body was taken from the vault at the same time. 


Eight churches 


have grown out of the missions begun by Eutaw Street Church. 


As we approach the close of these 
sketches of the historic places and illustrious 
men that stood out conspicuously in the days 
of early Methodism, the figure of Francis 
Asbury rises above all the others, deserving, 
in fact, a place next to that of John Wesley 
in the effective promulgation of Methodist 
doctrine and practice. He appears in every 
great scene and at every phase of the work 
from his landing in Philadelphia, in 1771, 
until his death, in 1816. He was twenty-six 
years old when he came to this country, and 
had been in the ministry five years. Born in 
Handsworth, Staffordshire, about four miles 
from Birmingham, England, August 20, 1745, 
he was reared by a godly mother, was con- 
verted at fifteen years of age, was a class 
leader and local preacher at seventeen, and 
an itinerant at twenty-one. The deficiency 
of his early education he largely overcame in 
later years by an immense amount of reading. 
He was one of five volunteers for America at 
the Wesleyan Conference of 1771, and was 
selected, with Richard Wright, who remained 
only a short time. From this time his life 
becomes the most important chapter in the 
history of American Methodism, which is too 
extensive to be embodied within the limita- 
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the western suburbs of the 
city. There is a peculiar 
interest to Methodists in the one cailed 
Mt. Olivet. It consists of fifty acres, 
and is the property of the First Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, or, more prop- 
erly speaking, the “‘ Baltimore City 
Station,’’ having been acquired in 1849 
as a burial place, which, although in no 
sense restricted to use by Methodists, 
has become the last earthly resting-place 
of a remarkable number of persons dis- 
tinguished in the history of the denom- 
ination. : 

Looming high above the many 
names that shine out in the annals of 
early Methodism, stands that of Francis 


YLONG the ancient highway that runs from Baltimore to the west, known as the 
Frederick Turnpike, and constituting the first stretch of that famous artery of 
travel, the ‘‘national road’’ of early days, there extends a number of cemeteries in 


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Asbury, the real organizer and founder of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church in America, if this distinction can be 
attributed to any one man. Sunday, March 31, 1816, 
this truly heroic and lofty character died at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., after forty-five years spent in the work of 
advancing Methodism in this country. He was buried 
by those who were with him, in the family burying- 
ground of George Arnold. Five weeks later the General 
Conference met in Baltimore, and on the first day an 
address was presented from the male members of the 
Church in this city, asking the privilege of removing the 
remains of Bishop Asbury from the place where they had 
been buried to Baltimore. Their request was granted, 
and Rev. John Wesley Bond, a Marylander, who had 
been Asbury’s traveling companion, and was with him 
at the time of his death, was desired to superintend the 
removal. 

On May 9, 1816, the body arrived, and the next day 
the members of the General Conference attended the 
funeral services, at which it was estimated that twenty- 
five thousand people were assembled to pay honor to the 
distinguished dead. ‘These services were held in the 
Light Street Church, a place hallowed by many sacred 
memories. The body was removed to Eutaw Street 
Church, on Eutaw Street, near Mulberry Street, where it 
Sa ee ot dea was placed in a vault. In 1854 the remains were disin- 

/ terred, and finally deposited in Mount Olivet Cemetery. 
The bodies of Bishops Enoch George and John 
Emory, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, are buried beside the great Bishop, and fifty feet to the south 
rest the bodies of Bishop Beverly Waugh and his 
wife. A tall shaft, 18 feet high and 4 feet square 
at the base, known as the “‘Bishops’ Monument,’’ has 
been erected where the graves of the three Bishops are 
located. It is suitably inscribed to these four great 
leaders, and was dedicated June 16, 1854. 


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Ten feet to the north is the monument over the 
remains of Robert Strawbridge, the pioneer of them all. 
Another step brings us to the tomb of Jesse Lee, the 
distinguished preacher and historian of the early period 
of Methodism, who inaugurated the work in New Eng- 
land. His body rests beneath a flat-topped vault, cov- 
ered with a marble slab, recounting briefly his career. 
The handsome monument shown in our illustration was 
erected in 1876 by New England Methodists, ‘‘on the 
86th anniversary of his first sermon in Boston, preached 
under the old elm in the Common, July 11, 1750.’ For 
a time this monument stood by Lee’s tomb, but has 
since been removed several hundred feet toa conspicuous 
knoll, where it has a more artistic environment. 

More Methodist ministers are buried here than in 
any other cemetery in the world, in recognition of which 


fact, the Methodist Episcopal Church adjoining is called 
“Memorial Church.” 


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/T is not the primary purpose of this book to make an argument, but in the effort to 
depict a few of the many interesting things connected with the story of Methodism, 
the importance of carefully collecting and preserving such relics as have escaped 
destruction, has been repeatedly shown. The American Methodist Historical 
Association, which was organized some years ago, had its headquarters in Balti- 
more, and many valuable souvenirs or personal possessions of men distinguished in the early 
days of the denomination had been acquired through various channels. Unfortunately, the 
great fire of 1904 in Baltimore destroyed most of these relics which were in the preachers’ room 
at the Baltimore Book Depository on Baltimore street. A few were saved through the efforts of 
some of the thoughtful ministers. Among these were the ‘‘ Lost Portrait of Asbury’’ and the 
Strawbridge pulpit, which are now in the First Church. Some of the most interesting articles 
of the Historical Association have been placed in The Woman’s College, where they may be 
seen. Here we find the original certificate of Asbury’s ordination, an autograph letter from 
John Wesley to Mr. Heath, who became first president of Cokesbury College; an autograph 
letter from Thomas Coke, offering Mr. Heath the presidency; a Greek Testament, once owned 
by Captain Thomas Webb, the pioneer preacher with Embury; the pocket Bible of Thomas 
Coke, with his autograph, which book he had with him on his voyage to India at the time of 
his death; a prayer-book which John Wesley presented to his wife, Mary, and which came into 
the possession of the Association through Rev. William Butler, who gives an account of it. 
Here is also the pocket Bible of Bishop Beverly Waugh, presented by his widow. 

In the rotunda of Thc Woman’s College may be seen the old bell of Cokesbury College, 
now used to strike the periods for college classes. Standing in another corner is the San 
Domingo mahogany hall clock of William Watters, whose name appears among the ten 


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preachers in the First Methodist Conference in America, and 
he is generally acknowledged to have been the first American 
itinerant preacher. He was born in Baltimore County, Md., 
October 16, 1751. 

Another veteran in the ranks of Methodism whose picture 
appears in this book is Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. He was born 
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, was a companion of Lee 
in New England, subsequently toiled in many important 
fields, and in 1798 was appointed book agent, continuing ten 
years He preached the funeral sermon in St. George’s 
Church, Philadelphia, on the death of Asbury. It was to 
Cooper that Wesley addressed the last letter which he wrote 
to America. He died in 1847, at the time the oldest Methodist 
preacher in the world. 

The log cabin at the head of this article was for some 
years the episcopal residence of Bishop Robert Richford 
Roberts, who was born in Frederick County, Md., in 1778, 
admitted to the Baltimore Conference in 1804, was an inti- 
mate friend of President Madison, and was elected a bishop 
about a month after Asbury’s death. He then plunged into 
work on the frontier, living in Western Pennsylvania, and 
afterward in Indiana. 

We also show the birthplace of the late Bishop John F. 
Hurst, in Dorchester County, Md. Bishop Hurst has built 
enduring monuments for himself in his important services in 

HHOR WGH Ss POSGER Bie aiding the eS ES He of the American University at Wash- 
(from The Womah's College Collection) ington and in his “‘ History of Methodism.”’ 

Bishop George, whose picture is shown and whose body 
rests by the side of Asbury in Mt. Olivet, was the fifth Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He was born in Lancaster County, Va., in 1767, admitted to the North Carolina Conference in 1790, made 
Presiding Elder in 1796 and Bishop in 1816. His death occurred at Staunton, Va., August 23, 1828. 

Bishop Emory, whose grave in on the other side of Asbury’s, was the son of distinguished Maryland 
Methodists. Born in 1790, he entered the legal profession, was converted at seventeen years of age, and 
was admitted to the Philadelphia Conference at twenty-two. In 1820 he represented his church in the 
British Wesleyan Conference, was afterward Book Agent, and in 1832 was elected Bishop. He died in 
1835, as the result of being thrown from 


his carriage near Baltimore. 

Bishop Beverly Waugh was bornin 
Fairfax County, Va., October 25, 1789, 
and died in Baltimore, February 9, 1858. 
In his fifteenth year he attached him- 
self to the church, and was for a time 
actively engaged in business. In 1809 
he entered the Baltimore Conference, 
and for eighteen years filledja number 
of the most prominent appointments. 
He was made Assistant Book Agent in 
1828, principal Book Agent in 1832, a 
delegate to the General Conferences of 
1816, 1820, 1828 and 1835, and was 
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TONG the old records that lie in the vault of the First Church, there are none more 
interesting than those which record the story of the first Sunday School work in 
Baltimore.- ‘To the Firs Church belongs the honor of having the oldest. Sunday 
School in the city of any denomination. It will celebrate its ninety-second anni- 
versary this year. Here, as elsewhere, occasional and transitory schools were 
founded earlier. But it was not till 1816 that the systematic movement began. The first 
minutes tell of ‘‘a Meeting of a number of Religious Persons held at the Conference Room, 
Light Street, on Monday evening, Oct. 31, 1816, to take into consideration the propriety and 
utility of a free school.’’ The constitution gives their purpose: We will endeavor by 
unalterable patience, zeal, and love to educate as many white and colored persons as we can 
until they know their duty to God and man and can read the Holy Scriptures.” 

These early schools were not for the children of the church, but for the very poor and 
ignorant. They had to begin with the work of reading and writing. The first item of expense 
is two dozen A B C books, and the proposed classification of scholars was: “‘l. Into those 
unacquainted with letters. 2. Those who spell words of two or more letters. 3. Those who 

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begin to read the New Testament. 6. Those who 
begin tofread the Bible.’’ ‘The writing was taught 
on long.desks strewn with sand. 

‘The first schcols were not a regular part of the 
work of individual churches. "The Asbury Sun- 
day-School Society, formed at the meeting noted 
above, was a general society, though its work was 
done in the Methodist Church and more particu- 
larly the City Station. It had, however, its inde- 
pendent organization, officers and treasury, and, 
indeed, still exists as a separate corporation, 
though connected with First Church. 

Though the oldest society, it was not long 
alone. As its schools were for male scholars only, 
the McKendreean Society was organized by the 
women, also in the City Station, and only one 
month younger. <A few years later the Wesleyan 
Society was formed, which had charge of the 
schools in East Baltimore. Other churches also 
took up the work, the next after the City Station 
being probably St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal 
Church. In addition, not a few schools were 
privately started, some of which later obtained 
permission to affiliate with the Asbury Society, 


whose systematic care of its schools was of evi- 
EZEKIEL COOPER dent value. 


The field, indeed, was very ripe and within a 
few years the Asbury Society had seven or eight schools under its care, besides those under the charge of 
the sister organization. But it was not easy work. ‘The churches had no place to house the schools. 
The first quarters secured were for the colored school, in the Sharp Street African Church. ‘The first 
white school was opened in a room ‘“‘over the engine house at the Hanover Market.’’ Later we find 
requests such as that preferred to St. Peter's and to the Dunkard Meeting-House for the use of rooms. 
The women secured the erection of a special building, the McKendreean Chapel, at the corner of Lombard 
and Paca Streets, which served also as a place for young preachers to try their powers, and near which 
stood the ‘‘ Widows’ Row,’’ the forerunner of our present ‘‘ Home for the Aged.’’ ‘The Asbury Society 
made similar provision and in 1822 we find a resolution appropriating $100 “‘ towards paying for the lot of 
ground on which the Sunday-School in Old Town is erecting.’’ 

More serious even was the question of securing workers. The calls were coming in from “Gallows 
Hill’’ and ‘‘Scrabble Town,’’ from places near and from those lying out from the city. There were 
colored children to be looked after and even adults applying. More than once schools had to be closed 
for lack of officers and teachers. It was especially hard to secure teachers for the colored schools until 
finally the Sharp Street Church itself took up the work and soon had a prosperous school with colored 
teachers and officers. These conditions explain such a minute as that of May 30, 1820: ‘“‘ Resolved that 
those scholars at the African School who can read well be discharged, and that public notice be given 
from the pulpit of the African Church that the school will be open for such as cannot read.”’ 

It is interesting to trace the widening influence of the work. We note in 1820 the formation of the 
Asbury Juvenile Economical Society, a kind of children’s saving bank, the anticipation of a modern 
movement in public schools. A year or two later the ‘“Juvenile Finleyan Missionary Society’’ is organ- 
ized, stimulated by the visit of Rev. Jas. B. Finley, accompanied by two converted Wyandotte chiefs. 
An industrial school is also spoken of, and various night schools. School No. 6, of the McKendreean 
Society, was a school for adults, ‘‘ for the instruction of females from 16 to 60, . . . a goodly number 
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were soon realized. A motion to drop children whose parents could pay for schooling is recorded as lost: 
and the constitution was amended so as to broaden the scope. cman 
Some interesting suggestions are given us by items of expense and notes of supplies. Here is a pay- 
ment to Wm. Mulkay “‘for heiroglyphicks, $2.25.’ Nov. 19, $10 were appropriated for 100 candle 
sticks. Of $472 expended by the McKendreean Society the first two years, $190 was for clothing, $55 
being for shoes alone. Here is a requisition made for one of the male schools on Dec. 17, 1824: ? 
“1 doz United States primers. 
4 doz. good slate pencils (not apologies for pencils). 
1 doz. divine songs. 
500 Asbury tickets, quills, etc.”’ 
The frequent item of expense for premiums suggests the method which long ruled in the schools. It 


was the method of memorizing, stimulated by prizes. A rule adopted Nov. 22, 1820, reads thus: ‘‘Every 
scholar who can read must during the week commit to memory at least one lesson to consist of 5 verses of 
Hymns, 2 Chapters of Catechism, or 10 verses of Scripture at the discretion of the Teachers.’’ An 


ascending grade of awards assisted in this work, “‘Asbury tickets,’’ white tickets, red tickets, and these 
finally exchanged for premiums. The premiums were commonly Testaments or Bibles, though in one 
case ‘‘ Religious Tracts’ are mentioned. 

And learn they did. In School No. 3 ‘‘there have been rehearsed during the year of Scripture, 
Catechism and Divine Songs 76,768 verses, for which the scholars have received 80 premiums, and for 
regular attendance 150 tracts.’’ This is a school of 49 pupils. Here is Elizabeth Lenox, ‘‘who entered 
the school Dec. 3, 1816, and was put into the alphabet class. She has committed to memory the first and 
second numbers of the Sabbath-School spelling books, she reads correctly in the Testament, has committed 
to memory 5 divine songs and 6 chapters of the catechism.’’ This after two years. Ann Rose committed 
to memory all but one chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel in one quarter. The rewards were not simply for 
the memory, and we must not pass by Elizabeth Graham, who ‘‘has not been reproved for absence or 
misbehaviour in church or school for nearly five years.’’ And the boys were not lacking, for here is John 
Bryan with 1,804 verses to his credit in nine months, and W. Hall, ten years old, who has learned 675 
verses in eight months. 

But though they worked thus with the memory, 
and though they had to begin with the rudiments of 
what our public schools now give, the ultimate aim was 
higher. The records of the Women’s Society are most 
interesting in their concreteness and fullness. They 
were constantly noting the religious needs of the chil- 
dren. ‘The girls are referred to individually. ‘‘ Eliza 
Downs knows her prayers, but says she Las never sinned 
in all her life.’ ‘‘ Mary Hyson never heard of Heaven, 
Jesus Christ, or of a Judgment Day.’’ “‘ Elizabeth 
Smith is also seeking the pearl of great price, her con- 
victions have been so pungent at times as to cause her 
to desist from her studies. Likewise Sophia Simmons, 
a child aged eight years, is very seriously awakened to 
a sense of the sinfulness of sin.’’ And there were times 
of special religious awakening. Here is the record of 
one: ‘‘On the 14th of September, 1817, we intended 
holding a prayer-meeting with the children, but while 
giving out the second hymn, the words of which were 

““and am I born to die, to lay this body down; 

And must my trembling spirit fly into a world unknown?”’ 
the power of the Lord was so eminently near that some 
trembled under a sense of it, and the whole school, with 
the exception of a few individuals, was crying for 
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=o} ASTENING toward Baltimore as this book goes to press are approximately eight 
hundred delegates to the twenty-fifth delegated session of the General Conference 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. From all parts of the world, they come, 
representing many millions of people. The session will begin in The Lyric, May 6, 
at 10 A. M., and it is anticipated that nearly thirty thousand persons will 
accompany the delegates, or visit the city during the month that the conference is expected to 
continue. 

There were on December 31, 1907, one hundred and thirty-one Annual Conferences, each of 
which is entitled to select delegates to the General Conference. The delegations vary from two 
to sixteen in number. One hundred and twelve Annual Conferences are within the United 
States, of which ninety-six are English speaking, ten are German, four Swedish and two 
Norwegian-Danish. 

There are nineteen Foreign Conferences distributed as follows: India, six; China, three; 
South America, two; Switzerland, one; Sweden, one; Norway, one; Italy, one; Mexico, one; 
Africa, one. 

In emphasis of the’ wide influence of Methodism, it may be stated that the business of 
ninety-seven Annual Conferences is carried on in the English tongue, thirteen use the German 
language, five the Swedish, three the Norwegian, three the Chinese, three the Spanish, one the 
Italian and six the several vernaculars of India. In addition to the one hundred and thirty-one 


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Annual Conferences enumerated, there are twelve Mission Conferences and sixteen Missions which have no 
official representation in the General Conference. 

Several Conferences have been organized since the above statistics were compiled, so that there are 
134 Annual Conferences to be represented in the General Conference this year. 

The General Conferences which met in Baltimore in 1792, 1796, 1800, 1804 and 1808 were composed 
of all the preachers in full connection with the church. The difficulties incident to the assembling of the 
members from all parts of the country as the work spread, led to a proposition to change the form of the 
General Conference into a delegated body, and this important step was finally taken in this city, one 
hundred years ago, so that the General Conference of 1812, held in John Street Church, New York, was 
the first delegated General Conference, and consequently counting from that session, the meeting to be held 
in Baltimore this year is designated as the twenty-fifth delegated session. 

The delegations vary in number from two to sixteen, elected by each Conference. The ratio of 
representation is one ministerial delegate for each forty-five members of an Annual Conference. The Lay 
Electoral Conference is entitled to the same number of delegates as the Annual Conference, so the General 
Conference is composed of equal numbers of ministers and laymen. The assignment of seats is by lot. 

The arrangements on behalf of the Conference are made by the Book Committee through the following 
Commission on Entertainment: Dr. W. F. Whitlock, Delaware, O., chairman; Dr. A. S. Mowbray, 
Wilmington, Del., secretary; Mr.O. P. Miller, Rock Rapids, Ia., treasurer; Mr. J. A. Patton, Chattanooga, 
Tenn.; Mr. Hanford Crawford, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. C. E. Bacon, Indianapolis, Ind. and Mr. F.W. Pearsall, 
Ridgewood, N. J. 

Rev. J. B. Hingeley, D. D., is the General Secretary of the Conference and the Bishops rotate from 
time to time throughout the session as presiding officers. 

The Bishops. 

The Episcopal College consists of twenty-four members—seventeen general superintendents and seven 
missionary bishops—the number having been decreased by death since the last General Conference. In 
view of these deaths, the growth of the church, and the increase of work, it is anticipated that the General 
Conference this year will elect at least eight bishops. The total number since the founding of the church 
is sixty-four, whose pictures are shown elsewhere, the forty deceased bishops being grouped in one plate, 
and the twenty-four men forming the College being grouped in the frontispiece. Of these twenty-four, 
Bishops Bowman, Foss, Walden, Mallalieu and Vincent (five) are superannuated, and Bishops Thoburn, 
Hartzell, Warne, Scott, Oldham, Robinson and Harris (seven), are Missionary Bishops in foreign lands, 
leaving only twelve bishops for active work in America, which number is further reduced to nine by the 
fact that Bishop Neely’s episcopal residence has been fixed in Buenos Aires, Bishop Burt’s in Switzerland, 
and Bishop Bashford’s in China. 

Topics to be Discussed. 

Among the questions that will engage the time and attention of the General Conference is the subject 

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of annual conferences, and is therefore settled unless the General Conference submits the matter in a new 
form to the annual conferences. 

The question of making the presiding eldership an elective office instead of appointive, is another 
important topic to be considered by the General Conference. 

The restoration of the time limit to the pastorates is a subject that will come prominently before the 
General Conference. In 1900 the time limit, which was then five years, was abolished. It had previously 
been extended from two to three, three to four, and finally to five years. So far as the question has been 
tested in the annual conferences, the southern and western favor the restoration of the time limit, and those 
in the east, while not united, seem to oppose it. There is still a time limit of six years on the appointment 
of one man as presiding elder to the same district. 

The discussion over ‘Paragraph 248’’ of the Discipline promises to be one of the most interesting. 
This paragraph embodies the church rules on the subject of members participating in amusements. It 
prohibits indulgence in theatres, card playing, horse-racing, dancing, playing games of chance, circuses, 
patronizing dancing schools, or taking such other amusements as are obviously of misleading or question- 
able moral tendency. 

The increase in the church numerically and the basis of representation in the General Conference has 
made that body so large that it is becoming unwieldy and difficult to handle as an organized assembly. 
The question of a reduction in the ratio of representation from one delegate for every forty-five members 

- or a fraction thereof in the several annual conferences, will be considered. The propositions that have 


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been voted upon by the annual conferences are to make the ratio one in sixty, one in seventy-five, or one 

in ninety, but there seems to be a majority of votes against all these plans. 
: By action of the last General Conference the Board of Education, Freedman’s Aid and Southern Edu- 
r cation Society, the Sunday School Union, and the Tract Society were consolidated into one organization 
_ with three distinct departments, to be known as The Board of Education, Freedman’s Aid and Sunday 
"4 Schools. Under the new system each secretary remains in charge of his department. The commission 
_ appointed to bring about this unification finds that the plan projected is not satisfactory and will recom- 
i mend some other solution of the problems involved. This will also be one of the leading topics for 
_ discussion. 
- Other questions that will receive consideration are the subject of church union among the several 
¥ branches of Methodism, especially with a view to uniting the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist 
_ Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church; the consolidation of the Book Concerns 
: “under one management; and the work of the deaconesses which is now carried on in part under the control 

of the Home Missionary Society and in part under independent supervision. 


Standing Committees 


The schedule of places and days for meetings of the fourteen standing committees throughout the 
sessions of the General Conference, has been arranged as follows: 


Madison Avenue AD. L. Church 


Rev. F. St. Clair Weal, D. D., Pastor Madison and Zafavette Avenues 

Monday, Wednesday and Friday— Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday— 
Episcopacy. Education, Freedman and Sunday Schools. 
State of the Church. Book Concern. 

> First a). E, Church 
Rev. WH. Frank Rall, D. D., Pastor St. Paul and TwentysSecon? Streets 

Monday, Wednesday and Fricay— Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday— 

Temporal Economy. Home Missions and Church Extension. 
Deaconess Work and Evangelism. 
| Assoctate Congregational Church, 


Rev. Oliver Wuckel, D. D. 


Maryland Avenuc and Preston Street 
Monday, Wednesday and Friday—Itinerancy. 


Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday— 
Foreign Missions. 


Mount Vernon Place M. LE. Church 
Rev. Wilbur F. Sheridan, D. D., Pastor 


Charles and Monument Streets 
Judiciary. 


Monday, Wednesday and Friday—Revision. 


Strawbridge Park Place MM. EL. Church 
Rev. E. L. Watson, Pastor 
Park Avenue ard Wilson Street 
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday— 
Temperance and Prohibition. 
Tuesday and Friday—Epworth League. 


Guilford Avenue MM. EB. Church 
Rev. F. P. Hand, Pastor 


Guilford Avenue and Lanvate Street 


Monday, Wednesday and Friday—Boundaries. 


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The following schedule of events has been adopted for the General Conference, at Baltimore, Md., up 3 


to the time this book goes to press, including reception, lectures, anniversary celebrations, and excursions: 


Wednesday, May 6. Public Reception at the Lyric in the evening. 

Thursday, May 7. Centennial of the Delegated General Conference. 

Friday, May 8. Lecture, Bishop Charles B. Galloway, Subject, ‘‘L. QO. C. Lamar, the 
Great Pacificator.’’ 

Saturday, May 9. Laymen’s Missionary Movement.—Excursion to Gettysburg. 

Sunday, May 10. Temperance Anniversary (3 P. M.). No evening service. 

Monday, May 11. Church Extension and Home Missions. 

Tuesday, May 12. Lecture, Dr. William Alfred Quayle, Subject, ‘‘Faust.”’ 

Wednesday, May 23. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society. 

Thursday, May I#. Foreign Missionary Society. 

Friday, May i5. Lecture, Dr. Robert McIntyre, Subject, ‘‘Buttoned-up People.” 

Saturday, May 16. Social Service.—Excursion to Washington for Entertainment by Ameri- 


can University. 
Sunday, May 17. Preaching Service (3 P. M.). 
Monday, May 18. Epworth League. 
Tuesday, May 19. Lecture, Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Subject, ‘‘The Prince of Peace.’ 


Wednesday, May 20. Woman’s Home Missionary Society. 
Friday, May 22, Oratorio—‘ ‘The Messiah’’ 

Saturday, May 23. Deaconesses’ Anniversary. 

Sunday, May 24. Sermon (3 P. M.). 

Tuesday, May 26. Excursion to Annapolis. 


The arrangements for the General Conference, so far as local Methodists have participated therein, 


have been looked after by the Baltimore Committee of Entertainment, which was organized several 
months ago with thirty-five representative Methodists as members, and out of which ten sub-committees 
were formed, these sub-committees being increased immediately by other workers as seemed advisable. 
An Executive Committee was created consisting of the chairmen of all the committees, and headquarters 
were established in Ingram Building, where the work was vigorously pressed until the assembling of the 
General Conference. The membership of these local committees is as follows: 


Baltimore Committee of Entertainment 


CHARES W. BALDWIN, D. D., HENRY M. WILSON, M.D., JAMES E. INGRAM, 
Chairman. Vice-Chairman. Treasurer. 
WILLIAM M, WINKS, JOHN T. STONE, 

Recording Secretary. Corresponding Secretary. 
CHARLES K. ABRAHAMS. JOHN F. GoUCHER, D.D. M. EF. B: Races. 
SUMMERFIELD BALDWIN. CHARLES HANN. WILLIAM C. ROUSE. 
WILLIAM C. BALLARD. J. FRED. HEISSE, D.D. WILBUR F. SHERIDAN, D. D. 
W. G. BISHOP. REV. JOHN A. HOLMES. JOHN H. SMITH. 
REV. STEWART H. BROWN. ELMORE B. JEFFREY. J WILLIAM STROBEL. 
Dr. DaviD H. CARROLL. WILLIAM A. LEITCH. CHARLES J. Taylor. 
GEORGE W. CORNER. REv. Harry D. MITCHELL. WILBUR C. VANSANT. 
HENRY S. DULANEY. WILLIAM lL. MCDOWELL, D. D. REV. EDWARD IL. WATSON. 
JOHN J. FAUPEL,. J. St. CLAIR NEAL, D.D. SEWELL S. WATTS. 
CHARLES D. FENHAGEN. JAMES C. NICHOLSON, D.D. LUTHER T. WIDERMAN, D.D. 


Executive Committee 


CHARLES. W. BALDWIN, D. D. Dr. DAVID H. CARROLL. W.C. VANSANT. 

Dr. HENRY M. WILSON. SUMMERFIELD BALDWIN. REV. H. D. MITCHELL. 
JAMES E. INGRAM. CHARLES J. TAYLOR, J. F. HEISSE, D. D. 
JOHN T. STONE. WILBUR F. SHERIDAN, D. D. J. C. NicHOoLsoN, D. D. 


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Sub=Committees 
1 Transportation—Dr. Davin H. CarRo_t. Chairman, SUMMERFIELD BALDWIN, JaMEs E. INGRAM, E. CLAY 


TIMANUS, REV. CHARLES W. BALDWIN, Gov. EDWIN WARFIELD, Mayor J. BARRY MAHOOL. 


2 Wall and Committee Rooms—SummMervFreLD BALDWIN, Chairman. Dr. Davip H. CARROLL, HENRY S. DULANEY, 
REV. CHARLES W. BALDWIN, SEWELL S. WaTTs, W. C. VANSANT, GEORGE W. CORNER, JAMES E. INGRAM. WILLIAM 
M. WINKS. 


3 ‘hospitality and Entertainment—Cuarres J. Tavior, Chairman, W. C. BALLARD, Vice-Chairman, REv. J. A. 
HorMEs, J. H. SMITH, JOHN S. DEALE, WILMER BLACK, J.WILLIAM STROBEL, CHARLES K. ABRAHAMS, JAMES H. PATTON, 
Dr. H. F. GoRGAS, WILLIAM C. McCarD, W. G. BisHop, REV. GOTLIEB T. BUBECK. 


4 Finance—JameEs E. INcGrRam, Chairman, W. C. Rouse. CHARLES D. FENHAGEN, SUMMERFIELD BALDWIN, Dr. 
David H. CARROLL. JOHN T. STONE, MILTON B. WiILLIAMs, A. R. CATHCART, J. S. RAWLINGS, SEWELL S. WATTS. 

5 ectures and Concetts—Rev. W. F. SHERIDAN, Chairman, E. B. JEFFREY, REV. E. L. WATSON. WALTER 
KIRWAN, A. R. CATHCART, CHARLES H. Evans, ROBERT F. STANTON. 

6 Excursions and Outings—Rev. J. St. CrarR Neat. Chairman, CHARLES HANN, J. WILLIAM STROBEL, HUGH 
HASSON, REV. H. D. MITCHELL, W. C. ELIASON, FIELDER M. HOWELL, T. W. GALLAGHER, F. V. COGGIN, W. A. LEITCH. 

7 Aggressive Evangelism— Rev. H. D. MiTcHELL, Chairman. Rev. S. H. BRown, REV. W. F. SHERIDAN, REV. A. 
FP. CAMPBELL, REV. K. G. MURRAY, WILMER BLACK, WILLIAM GISRIEL, GEORGE F. CLARK. 

S Welcome—wW. C. Vansant, Chairman, GEORGE W. CoRNER, CHARLES K. ABRAHAMS, JOHN S. DEALE, DAVID 
ABERCROMBIE, JOHN J. FAUPEL, REV. W. C. HUGHES. 
9 Public Worsbip and Pulpit Supply— Rev. J. F. Hersse, Chairman, REv. W. L. McDoweLt, REv. J. C. 
NICHOLSON, REv. M. F. B. RICE, REV. HENRY J. NaILor, REV. W. H. GAInuS, REV. CHARLES STEPHANO. 


10 Public Reception—Dr. HENRY M. WILsonN, Chairman, CHARLES E. HILL, FRANKLIN SANDERS, DR. JOHN NEFF, 
SUMMERFIELD BALDWIN, Hon. TuHos. IRELAND ELLIoT?r, J. B. RAWLINGS, DR. JOHN F, GOUCHER. 


The several committees have endeavored to discharge the duties given them so as to achieve the most 
satisfactory results. 

The Committee on Transportation obtained for delegates and others visiting Baltimore on account of 
the General Conference a special rate within the territory of the New England Passenger Association, 
Trunk Line Passenger Association, Southeastern Passenger Association, and the Eastern Canadian Pas- 
senger Association. ‘The rate is one full fare for the going and one third fare for the return trip on what 
is known as the certificate plan. The purchaser must get a-certificate from the ticket agent when he 
purchases his ticket, stating the occasion for which it is purchased. 

On arriving at Baltimore certificates must be deposited with Dr. David H. Carroll, whom the railway 


"companies have designated as their joint agent. A fee of twenty-five cents will be collected for validation. 


Tickets will be on sale in the territory covered by the New England, Trunk Line, Southeastern and 
Eastern Canadian Passenger Association three days (Sunday excepted) prior to the opening of the General 
Conference. ‘Tickets in the Central and Western Passenger Associations’ territory will be on sale May 3, 
4,5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 24 and 25, and in the Transcontinental Passenger Associations’ territory April 29 and 
30. Persons living in the territory covered by the Central, Western, Transcontinental and Southwestern 
Passenger Association will be able to buy round-trip tickets to Baltimore. 

The Committee on Hall and Committee Rooms secured the Lyric for the period of the General Con- 
ference, and it has been overhauled and equipped at an expense of hundreds of dollars for the occasion. 
A system of telephones has been installed, anda lunch room provided. Suitable committee and exhibition 
rooms have been equipped and furnished. The decorators have added to the already beautiful hall many 
touches of color that will increase its attractiveness. Cloak and retiring rooms have been fitted up for the 
comfort of those who will be in attendance, and cosily furnished rooms have been provided for the Bishops 
of the Church and the fraternal delegates from other religious organizations. A large number of boxes 
have been added to the seating arrangement. 

When the General Conference met in Baltimore in 1876 the sessions were held in the Academy of 
Music, and in 1840 the meetings were held in old Wesley Chapel, corner Sharp and Barre streets. The 


church of that day was rebuilt in 1870. 


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The Committee on Hospitality and Entertainment has been engaged for many months in arranging 
for homes and hotel accommodations for the delegates, who will be furnished with such information as 
The committee has issued a pamphlet containing a list of hotels 


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The Committee on Welcome and Reception is cooperating with the Committee on Hospitality, and 
has arranged to meet all delegates who will give the Committee notice of the time of their arrival at the 
railroad stations or steamboat wharves. 

The Committee on Finance has been charged with the duty of raising the necessary funds that will be 
required to detray the cost of the session. ‘The sources of revenue are the sale of boxes and seats in the 
Lyric, which have been taken promptly and yielded a handsome amount. It is also expected to obtain 
additional money from the sale of tickets for the lectures and oratorio which have been arranged by the © 
Committee on Lectures and Concerts. ‘The Committee on Finance is also publishing this souvenir book — 
on ‘‘ Baltimore Methodism and the General Conference of 1908.’’ 

The lectures for which arrangements have been made by the Committee on Lectures and Concerts © 
will be delivered in the Lyric on the evenings as follows: 

May 8. Bishop Charles B. Galloway. Subject, “‘L. Q. C. Lamar, the Great Pacificator.”’ 

May 12. Dr. William Alfred Quayle. Subject, ‘* Faust.’’ 

May 15. Dr. Robert McIntyre. Subject, ‘‘ Buttoned-Up People.’’ 

May 19. Hon. William Jennings Bryan. Subject, *‘ The Prince of Peace.’’ 

Single admission to each of these lectures will be 75 cents, and course tickets $2.00. A reserved seat 
for the course will be fifty cents additional. Boxes and seats may be reserved on and after April 22. 
Tickets will be on sale at Albaugh's. 

In addition to the lecture course, the grand oratorio ‘‘ The Messiah’’ will be given on the evening of © 
May 22, by the Baltimore Oratorio Society with 300 voices. ‘The soloists will be: Soprano, Miss Florence 
Hinkle, of New York; Mrs. Annie Taylor Jones, of New York; Tenor, Mr. Reed Miller, of New York; 
Basso, Mr. Tom Daniel, of New York. ‘The oratorio tickets will be $1.00 each, and reserved seats 
twenty-five cents additional. ‘Tickets may be obtained at Albaugh’s, 109 N. Charles street, and in the 
local churches of the city. 

United States Senator Beveridge is to introduce Rev. Dr. William Alfred Quayle. Rev. Dr. Robert 
McIntyre, of Denver, Col., will be introduced by United States Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, and the Hon. 
William Jennings Bryan will be introduced by Governor Frank Hanly, of Indiana. Bishop Galloway, 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, will be presented by Rev. Dr. James Monroe Buckley, one of 
the most widely known Methodists in America. 

The program of the Committee on Excursions and Outings is subject to the action of the General 
Conference, but it is thought the plans of the committee will be sufficiently attractive to meet with a ready 
acquiescence from the Conference. 

The Committee on Public Worship and Pulpit Supply has assigned the visiting ministers to preach in 
the Baltimore churches throughout the period of the Conference, subject, however, to other engagements. 

The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, the oldest woman's organization in the Church, succeeded 
the China Missionary Society, which was organized in Baltimore and carried on work for woman prior to 
1869. It will have an exhibit of Literature, in connection with the General Missionary exhibit, in the 
Howard Street Armory; also a Rest Room forthe use of women attending the Conferenee, and a Tea 
Garden. The Reference Committee of the Society, composed of secretaries of all branches, will convene 
in First Church, May 7 to 17. The Baltimore Branch, which has its headquarters at 516 Park avenue, 
has provided boxes at the Lyric for the visiting officers, when able to attend Conference sessions. The 
annual excursion of the Society will take place May 22 to Annapolis, West River, and other points. 

The Committee on Aggressive Evangelism has arranged for services to be held under the supervision | 
of Dr. Theodore $. Henderson, of New York, general superintendent of Methodist Episcopal Evangelistic 
work. The schedule of services every evening, beginning May 3, includes all sections, as foliows: 

South Baltimore Station, Rev. K. G. Murray, pastor; Dr. W. F. Stone, of Detroit, leader. 

West Baltimore Station (first two weeks), Rev. A. F. Campbell, pastor. 

Union Square Church (last two weeks), Rev. E. C. Gallagher, pastor; Hugh E. Smith, of Los 
Angeles, Cal., and James W. Patterson, of Long Beach, Cal., leaders. 

Madison Square (first two weeks), Rev. C. M. Boswell, D.D., leader. 

East Baltimore Station (last two weeks), Rev. C. M. Boswell, D.D., leader. 

Grace (Hampden) Church, Rev. B. W. Weeks, pastor; Rev. C. A. Gage, of Chicago, leader. 

Sundays, May 10, 17, 24, and 31, Ford’s Opera House in the afternoons. 

Daily, + P. M., Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church, Bishop Mallalieu in charge. 


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Work among the colored constituency will be conducted by the colored delegates to the General Con- 
_ ference, including Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, president of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., Dr. 
M. B. C. Mason, one of the secretaries of the Freedman’s Aid Society, and Dr. I. Garland Penn, assistant 
general secretary of the Epworth League. The mission will open Sunday, May 3, in John Wesley 
Church, Sharp and Montgomery streets, Rev. S. H. Brown, pastor; be continued May 10 in Centennial 
Church, Caroline and Bank streets, Rev. J. I,. Valentine, pastor; be transferred May 17 to Asbury 
Chapel, Lexington street and Rogers avenue, Rev. C. G. Cummings, pastor, and May 24, held in St. 
Paul’s Church, Saratoga street, near Carrollton avenue, Rev. E. W. Peck, pastor, and Ames Memorial 
Church, Baker and Carey streets, Rev. D. W. Hayes, pastor. 


Side Trips to Points of Interest During Convention 
One of the pleasing things in connection with the Convention being held in Baltimore is the number 


of points of interest located within easy distance, and which may be availed of during the Convention with 
the loss of little time. 


The Excursions and Outings Committee has outlined three official side trips to be made if possible by 
the Convention as a body while the Conference is in session. ‘They are— 


Saturday, May 9th—A trip to the celebrated Gettysburg Battle Field, located on the Western Mary- 
land Railroad, 71 miles from Baltimore. 


Saturday, May 16th—A visit to the American University at Washington, where a reception will be 
given tothe delegates participated in by President Roosevelt, Vice-President Fairbanks, and many other 
distinguished persons. 


Tuesday, May 26th—A trip by steamboat down the Chesapeake Bay to historic Annapolis. 


In addition to the above, there will be opportunities offered for side trips to Mount Vernon, Harper’s 
Ferry, Fort McHenry (near which the “‘ Star Spangled Banner’’ was written), Mount Olivet Cemetery 
(where many prominent Methodists are buried), New Windsor (the site of the old tree under which Robert 
Stawbridge preached his first sermon in Maryland, and the site of the Log Meeting House), Pen-Mar 
Park (Maryland’s greatest mountain resort), an] many additional points of interest. 


General Conference Sessions 


1784. Baltimore. 
1792. Baltimore. 
1796. Baltimore. 
1860. Baltimore. 
1804. Baltimore. 
1808. Baltimore. 
1812. New York. 
1816 Baltimore. 
1820. Baltimore. 
1824. Baltimore. 
1828. Pittsburg. 
1832. Philadelphia. 
1836. Cincinnati. 
1840. Baltimore. 
1844. New York. 
1848. Pittsburg. 
1852. Boston. 
1856. Indianapolis. 
1860. Buffalo. 
1864. Philadelphia. 
1868. Chicago. 
1872, Brooklyn. 
1876. Baltimore. 
1880. Cincinnati. 
1884. Philadelphia. 
1888. New York. 
1892. Omaha. 
1896. Cleveland. 
1900. Chicago. 
GUILFORD AVENUE M. E. CHURCH. 1904. Los Angeles. 


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history of the beginning of Methodism in America and the events growing from that 

foundation. Others have been shown in connection with the story of the General Conference. 

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GrRackE M. E. CHuRCH.* 


It is estimated that over one-sixth of the popu- 
lation of Baltimore, or upwards of one hundred 
thousand people in the city, are connected with its 
Methodist Churches, Sunday Schools or families, 
and the amount of money contributed to its various 
religious and benevolent funds, and the services 
rendered in its cause, show that the forces of Meth- 
odism are live and aggressive. 

In addition to the churches previously shown, 
which include some of the finest specimens of eccle- 
siastical architecture to be found anywhere, we 
have brought together a few illustrations of others, 
but the limited space at our disposal will preclude 
any extended account of these. Every one shown, 
as well as every one not shown, has been the scene 
of active labors for the upbuilding of Christ’s 
kingdom. 

In view of the far-reaching influence of Meth- 
odism today, an incident of more than passing 
interest may be mentioned. Bishop Taylor, in 
‘“ The Story of My Life,’’ records that Monument 
Street Church, known as North Baltimore Sta- 
tion, of which he had been pastor, inaugurated 
a plan for building and shipping to California in 
1849 one of the first Protestant churches erected on 
the Pacific Coast. This was erected at Sacramento. 
Other Baltimore churches ‘insisted on having a 
share in the work, and so services were held ‘‘in 


Eutaw Street Church, Fayette, Columbia Avenue, Caroline, Eastern Avenue and others, and they helped 
the chapel building cheerfully. The choir of Monument Street Church gave a concert of sacred song on 


behalf of the chapel. The ladies had 
a large pulpit Bible and hymn- 
book lettered ‘ Baltimore-California 
Chapel.’ ”’ 

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of long ago aided directly in the 
founding of Methodism on the Pacific 
Coast. The churches mentioned by 
Bishop Taylor were among the old 
mother churches from which many 
missions were started in Baltimore 
that are now flourishing and influen- 
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have been held in these early temples, 
and thousands of souls have been 
converted within their walls. Many 
of them continue their good work and 
give promise of a long and active 
career in the work of the Master. 

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Sbarp Street mM. LE. Church. 


The three pictures on this page illustrate the 
progress of one of the older churches in Baltimore, 
typifying as they do, the advance from an humble 
beginning in an unpretentious structure, to a strong 
organization, and one of the finest modern churches. 
The Sharp Street Church was for many decades one 
of the greatest assembling places for the colored 
Methodists of Baltimore. The first church stood on 
the west side of Sharp street, midway between Lom- 

_bard and Pratt streets. It was erected in 1802, and 
continued until 1860, when it was torn down and the 
second church in the series was built. This was 
occupied until 1898. The congregation then vacated 
it to occupy the fine edifice built at the northwest 
corner of Dolj hin and Etting streets. The building 
on Sharp street was not torn down immediately and 


SHARP STREET M. E. CHURCH—1S802 To 1&6). 


served as a mercantile warehous2 after the Balti- 
more fire of 1904. Several years ago, however, it 
was supplanted by an electrical power house. 

The site was not far distant from Wesley 
Chapel, which for many years was one of the 
greatest Methodist centres in the city, being 
especially frequented by the citizens of South Balti- 
more. It was in the midst of the city’s population 
in the days when it was first erected, was early 
used for Sunday-school purposes, and continued 


SHARP STREET M. E. Caurca, 1860 To 1898. 


to retain its location until long after large business 
houses had surrounded it on every side. 

No picture of the original church was known to 
be in existence, but for ths book a sketch was made 
from description by persons thoroughly familiar with 
the old church, and the accuracy of this work has been 
verified by a dozen or more persons who remember this 
old landmark in its days of glorious success. We are 
indebted to the present pastor, Rev. Mr. Hughes, for 
having this done. 

Methodism from its beginning in Maryland has 
taken firm root among the colored race and many Sub- 
stantial churches have been long established by the 
members of that race under the auspices of the several 
branches of the Methodist Church. There are thirty- 
three colored Methodist Congregations in Baltimore— 
SHARP STREET MEMORIAL CHURCH, ETTING AND fifteen identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

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#\HE philanthropic spirit of the citizens of Baltimore is evidenced by a large number 
of splendid educational and benevolent institutions representing an expenditure of 
many millions of dollars. For the purposes of this book, we are limited to a brief 
statement of facts about a few that are of especial interest to Methodists because of 
their identification with the work of that denomination. 


The Woman's College ot Baltimore 


Foremost among these, and indeed, among the educational institutions throughout the world 
for women is The Woman’s College of Baltimore. The founding of this institution is coeval 
with the beginning of the second century of organized American Methodism, just one hundred 
years after the “‘Christmas Conference.’’ To the thought and energy of Rev. John F. 
Goucher, D. D., is due the conception and maturing of this undertaking, and during the 
twenty-four years since the college was founded he has been unremitting in his zeal for its 
welfare and success. The long continued strain has induced him to retire from the presidency 
this year, much to the regret of all persons interested in the college, and he has been elected 
president emeritus. It is expected that his resignation will take effect at the close of the present 
scholastic year. Asa culminating triumph, Dr. Goucher has recently succeeded by strenuous 


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efforts in freeing the 
college from debt, 
having ‘raised a_ sub- 
scription of $500,000, 
and added $80,000 to 
the endowment fund, 
which now approximates 
one million dollars. The 
value of grounds and 
buildings is $1,267,604. 
The number of students 
is nearly 400, and the 
faculty includes 28 pro- 
fessors and teachers. 

The site of the 
Woman’s College is in 
the elevated section of 
the city, known as North 
Baltimore. The build- 
ings are large stone structures and make a handsome architectural group. In the immediate neighborhood 
are four spacious residence halls for the students. The illustration on the cover of this book shows three 
of the ten buildings which are now completed and in use. 

The ideal sought by the founders of this institution was the more perfect formation of womanly 
character for adaptation to the highest responsibilities of life in the home and in the progressive develop- 
ment of woman in the world at large. Although sectarian in its administration, it numbers students of all 
denominations on its rolls, and Methodism is a potent, not a disciplinary, force in its councils. 

Its collegiate departments furnish to wemen the same courses that the Johns Hopkins University 
offers to its undergraduates for the several bachelors’ degrees, while the greater proportion of its students 
are residents at the College surrounded by a domestic life and good influences. Physical education is a 
feature in the College work and a regular part of the curriculum. 


Morgan College 


This school, or series of schools, was established forty years ago ina private house on Saratoga street, 
Baltimore, and known as the Centenary Biblical Institute. J. Emory Round, D. D., was the first presi- 
dent. Later the school was removed to its present site, corner of Fulton and Edmondson avenues, and 
the name was ultimately changed to Morgan College in recognition of the large gifts to the institution by 
Rev. Lyttleton F. Morgan, D. D. ‘The courses of study were broadened, the standards for admission 
raised, and, with the growth of the practical or industrial ideas in education, branch schools were estab- 
lished. Princess Anne Academy, at Princess Anne, Md., 1s 
known also as the Eastern Branch of the Maryland Agricul- 
tural College, and carries trades and industries for men 
and women in addition to academic subjects. The Virginia 
Collegiate and Industrial Institute at Lynchburg, Virginia, 
gives instruction in industry and domestic science. Up- 
wards of three hundred students, taught by some twenty-three 
teachers, indicate in a general way the work of the schools. 
The leading colored preachers, lawyers, physicians and teachers, 
as well as many other business and professional men, have had 
more or less of their training in Morgan College and its Branches. 

Recently Mr. Andrew Carnegie has shown his faith in these 
schools by offering a gift of $50,000 in case a like sum be raised. 
This should be secured at once to meet growing needs. DEACONESSES’ HoME, BALTIMORE 


KELSO HoME. 


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THE SAMUEL READY SCHOOL, SHOWING COLUMBUS MONUMENT 


ibome for the Hged 


This institution, on a high and healthy site, at Fulton avenue and Franklin street, is valued at 
$100,000, improvements costing $20,000 having been completed recently. It has 80 inmates. Applicants 
must be 65 years old and members for ten years of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Baltimore, and must 
have no means of support. A payment of $200 and suitable wardrobe are required. 

A hospital ward, including a dispensary, has been among the recent improvements. The dining 
room has been enlarged and a wing added having four stories and containing twenty additional rooms. 


ikelso Tome for Orpbans 


Thomas Kelso, who founded this institution, December 20, 1873, actively superintended it until his 
death, July 26, 1878. His bequest yields an annual income of $5,012. The present expenses are some- 
what in excess of that amount. Forty-six girls are now under its care, ranging from six to seventeen 
years. ‘They are received into the home between the ages of four and twelve years, and to be eligible at 
least one of the parents must have been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The girls are sent 
to the public school until they are sixteen years of age, and are then given manual training until they are 
eighteen years of age, when they leave the home. ‘They are taught sewing and needlework constantly in 
the Home, and make all the clothing worn by them. ‘They do all the housecleaning, laundering and 
cooking. Kelso home is in Forest Park, one of the high, healthy and beautiful suburbs of Baltimore. It 
is in charge of a superintendent, sewing teacher and housekeeper. 


Baltimore Deaconess Wome 


This attractive home, with twenty large, airy, well-lighted rooms, is at the corner of Madison avenue 
and Lanvale street. There are thirteen Deaconesses and associates in Baltimore, although thirty-five 
Deaconesses and probationers have been connected with the work during the last fourteen years in this 
city. Several centers of industrial work, nine churches and missions are being served, and 1,900 children 
are under the care of the workers. ‘The Deaconesses have participated in open air evangelistic services, 
given out tracts and Testaments and called on thousands of persons in their homes. 


The Samuel Ready school 


This school, founded by Samuel Ready, who was a Methodist, was opened November 1, 1887. It 
cares for sixty orphan girls. The new building shown in our picture will greatly increase the facilities. 
Although founded by a Methodist, the school is non-denominational. Mr. Ready was born March 8, 1789, 
and died November 28, 1871. 

The site is on high ground, at the intersection of North and Harford avenues. The monument on 
the lawn was erected October, 1792, by the then owner of the property, the Chevalier D’Anmour, to the 
memory of Christopher Columbus. It is 44 feet 6 inches in height, and was the first monument on this 
continent to the memory of the great discoverer. 


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MARYLAND INSTITUTE, SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN— 
NIGHT SCHOOL, BALTIMORE ST. 


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of civic pride, courage and energy. In the face of great crises their reserve powers are 
brought into action, and they have seldom if ever failed to measure up to the full responsi- 
bility thrust upon them. ‘The world has never witnessed a more telling example of this spirit 
than was portrayed by the people of Baltimore in the period succeeding the great fire of 
February 7 and 8, 1904. Declining outside aid, not because they were too proud to accept it, but because 
they felt certain of their own strength and ability, and hence it would have been unfair to take from others 
without doing their utmost for themselves. 

The opportunity being ripe, the Baltimore people not only set to work to repair the damage done by 
the conflagration, but undertook vast public improvements involving an outlay of many millions of dollars, 
including $6,000,000 for docks and work in the Burnt District ; $10,000,000 for sewerage; $5,000,000 for 
enlarging the water works; $1,000,000 for park extension ; $7,000,000 for opening and widening streets in 
the Burnt District; $2,000,000 for street openings in the Annex. These vast undertakings are now in 
progress or have been consummated and mark a rapid advance for the ‘Monumental City.”’ 


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This city is distinctly religious and progressive. The history of Methodism has 
shown how strongly this great evangelistic work took root in Baltimore. The 
“whirlwind campaign,’’ as it has been termed, for raising a half million dollars to 
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responsiveness of her citizens to the religious appeal. This fund was subscribed in thirty days 
and has since been supplemented by an additional $100,000. 


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The two notable monuments which gained Balti- 
more the widely known name of the “‘Monumental 
City’’ were the beautiful shaft in memory of Wash- 
ington in Mount Vernon Place, and the Battle or 
Baltimore Monument in Monument Square commem- 
orating the defense of Baltimore, September 12, 1814, 
which is observed as a holiday in the city. The 
former is in the midst of the finest residence section 
and art centre, while the latter 1s in close proximity 
to the great public buildings and the financial and 
business districts. These two memorials stand at the 
head of a long array of monuments, among which 
may be noted the first monument to Columbus in 
America, in the grounds of the Samuel Ready School, 
corner North and Harford avenues; the Wildey and 
Ridgely monuments in Broadway and Harlem squares, 
to the founders of Odd Fellowship in America, which 
had its inception in Baltimore; the monument over 
the grave of Edgar Allen Poe, at Green and* Fayette 
streets; the monument opposite the Lyric, Mt. Royal 
avenue and Cathedral street, to the memory of the 
soldiers of the Maryland Line, who held the foe in 
check at the battle of Long Island in the Revolution- 
ary War, thus saving the American army from anni- 
hilation; the monument in Druid Hill Park to the 


WM. WALLACE MONUMENT—DRUID HILL PARK. 


Scottish patriot, William Wallace; the monument on 
Mt. Royal avenue to General Watson, a Marylander, 
who gave his life for his country’s cause in the Mexi- 
can War; and the Confederate States monument on 
the same avenue, and the monument on Federal Hill 
to Col. George Armistead, the commander of Fort 
McHenry in 1814. 

To these and others that have not been mentioned, 
will soon be added a beautiful monument at Eutaw 
Place and Lanvale street, to Francis Scott Key, 
author of the ‘“‘Star Spangled Banner,’’ which was 
written during the bombardment of Fort McHenry in 
1814. A monument to the Union soldiers and sailors 
of Maryland is also to be erected soon. 

Baltimore has built many monuments of a differ- 
ent character in her great institutions which are 
renowned throughout the world, such as the Johns 
Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University, 
the Woman’s College and a number of medical schools 
and colleges, making the city a great educational 
centre. In art the city has notable structures in the 
Peabody Institute, the Maryland Institute, and the 
Walters Art Gallery. A new building for the latter 
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The city has a large number of churches of the 
most beautiful architectural types, and is constantly 
increasing the number. 

Baltimore is a financial and whclesale mercantile 
centre for a large part of the Southern States, and the 
banking houses and mercantile warehouses are among 
the best in this country. A tremendous volume of 
business is transacted every year 

Manufacturing has made rapid strides in Balti- 
more in recent years, and in many lines Baltimore- 
made products are shipped all over the world. 

One of the greatest assets and advantages of the 
city 1s its facilities as a port, which results in a 
foreign commerce giving the city a leading place 
among the shipping centres of the country, and yield- 
ing a coastwise traffic that is only excelled by New 
York. The sea food of the Chesapeake Bay and the 
enormous quantities of vegetable produce from the 
lands on its borders contribute largely to this traffic. 

The conditions surrounding life in Baltimore 
make it one of the most agreeable and satisfactory 
places in which to reside. It is a city of homes, with 
living expenses reasonable, and within easy access of 
all parts of the country by numerous rail and water 


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transportation routes. It ranks among the leading 
centres of population, being sixth on the list of cities 
in the United States. The number of inhabitants is 
now placed at more than 600,000. 

Washington, Philadelphia and New York are in 
close prcximity, with frequent train service, the three 
cities being reached in forty five minutes, two and 
four hours respectively. 

Baltimore is located in the midst of a most beau- 
tiful and picturesque region, suggesting a continuous 
panorama of park lands. Ail the attractions and 
pleasures of aquatic sports and life upon the water 
are availabie on the broad Patapsco river and Chesa- 
peake Bay, while inland the country is rolling and 
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The construction of electric trolley lines during the last fifteen years has caused the city to expand 
rapidly over the beautiful suburban country which extends in every direction. Many thousands of persons 
whose places of business are in the city reside in the country or suburban districts the year round, or 
through the summer months. One of the most picturesque and lovely centres of suburban residences is 
Roland Park, just north of the city limits; beyond this is Mount Washington; farther west is Park 
Heights avenue, and Sudbrook, and lying west of the city is Catonsville and Ellicott City. Going 
eastward from Roland Park we find many fine and elegant homes along Charles street avenue. The inter- 
vening country for many miles around is occupied by splendid estates, or has been subdivided into sites 
for cottages and country homes. 

Beyond the suburbs mentioned to the north of the city, lies Green Spring Valley, famous for its sylvan 
beauty. Extending from east to west for several miles, it lies between the crests of two elevated ridges 
about a mile apart. Here are some of the finest country homes to be found near Baltimore. This beauti- 
ful region retains much of its native glory, being dotted over with woodland and stream. On the southern 
ridge is the ruin of the old fort erected in colonial times as a frontier outpost against the Indians. Not 
far distant is the home of Rev. Dr. John F. Goucher, president of the Woman’s College, on an elevated spot 
upward of five hundred feet above tidewater. North of the valley is the old Garrison Church, now 
called St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal Church, of which Asbury was offered the rectorship in 1777. 
At the terminus of the electric railway, eighteen miles from the city in this direction, is the Emory Grove 
Camp grounds which annually is the scene of one of the greatest camp meetings in Maryland. This Camp 
Meeting is one of the great rallying places of Methodists in this part of the country. On the southeastern 
side of the city, twelve miles distant, is Sparrow’s Point, one of the great steel rail and ship building plants 
of the world. The town and plant were built by the Maryland Steel Company. Beyond Sparrow’s Point, 
on the Chesapeake Bay Shore, is a resort constructed by the railway company which is a popular place 
for Sunday School excursions and the city’s population generally. 

The climate is healthful and salubrious, not excessively hot in summer or cold in winter. The city 
is on the direct line of travel between North and South, and is about one day’s journey from Florida, 
Chicago and St. Louis. 

The favorable conditions have made Baltimore preeminently a city of homes—homes for the wealthy 
and homes for persons in more moderate circumstances. 

The greatest diversity of fool products at the most reasonable cost are available Houses of all grades 
of elegance or simplicity may be purchased or rented at moderate figures. 

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NEW UNION STATION, WASHINGTON. 


more into such close contact that the ‘“‘ Twin Cities’’ of the Northwest may find 

their pseudonym transferred to the East at no distant day. The frequent train 

service between the two cities, which has been provided for some years by the 

Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies, has recently been 
supplemented by the inauguration of the interurban line of the Washington, Baltimore and 
Annapolis Electric Railway Company, giving an increased number of cars between Baltimore, 
Washington and Annapolis. The travel between the two cities is ever increasing. 

It seems to be the natural, proper and patriotic course to pursue, when Baltimoreans have 
entertained guests and shown them the places of interest in the ‘‘ Monumental City,’’ to take 
them to Washington, the seat of government of the United States, and rapidly taking front rank 
among the most beautiful capitals of the world. 

The national authorities are expending millions of dollars every year in the construction of 
public buildings and statues; in the extension and beautifying of the park system; the opening, 
grading and paving of avenues, streets and boulevards. This government work of public 
improvement is now carried on with regard to a comprehensive and systematic plan, devised by 
a special commission, under authority of Congress, several years ago. 

This project, in its completed state, contemplates the surrounding on the north, east and 
south sides of Capitol Park, in which the Capitol is located, with magnificent structures for 
government uses, and the occupation of all the area west of the park to the Potomac River, 
between Pennsylvania and Maryland Avenues, with buildings and boulevards, parks and 
statues, making this section one of the most superbly beautiful in the world. 

The Congressional Library and office buildings for the use of members of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives have already been completed adjoining the Capitol grounds. The 
Corcoran Art Gallery, White House, State, War and Navy Department Buildings, the Treasury, 


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Post Office and new Municipal Buildings, are on the 
northern margin of the area indicated west of the Capitol, 
while the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum and 
Agricultural Department are within its southern border. 
In the centre of this magnificent setting stands the majestic 
Washington Monument, five hundred and fifty-five feet 
five inches high. One of the most impressive features of 


the plan is a boulevard, several hundred feet in width, 
extending from the west front of the Capitol to the Monu- 
ment, and thence on to the Potomac and across an artistic- 
ally designed bridge to the Virginia shore and the National 
Cemetery at Arlington. An intersecting boulevard at the 
Monument will lead to the White House grounds. This plan when first outlined seemed stupendous, but 
it is rapidly assuming tangible form, and the great boulevard is under construction. 

As a preliminary step, it was necessary to 
eliminate the Sixth Street railroad station and 
adjacent tracks ‘of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company, and by the co-operation of the Con- 
gress, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad Companies, one of the finest 
railroad stations in the world, has been erected 
three blocks from the Capitol. This was occu- 
pied in 1907, and all the steam railroads entering 
the city now use it. 

Washington, owing to the history being 
made by the American people, is rapidly becom- 
ing one of the potent centres of influence through- 
out the world, and many institutions of great 
magnitude and importance are being located 
there. Probably none of these of an educational character are destined to a career of greater usefulness 
than the American University, which is under construction, and which it is hoped to open in the near 
future. Bishop John F. Hurst, a native 
of Dorchester County, Maryland, was 
the great prime mover in urging forward 
this project, and, before his death, had 
made great progress in assuring the 
certainty of the enterprise. Bishop Mc- 
Cabe continued the work until his death 
in December, 1906, and the trustees of 
the University, in 1907, elected Franklin 
Hamilton, Ph.D., to the chancellorship. 
The site includes ninety-two acres, and 
the assets accumulated aggregate up- 
ward of $2,000,000. ‘The University is 
intended for post graduate work, and 
will be ‘‘the crown to the educational 
system of a great church.’’ 

The American people have long 
been accustomed to look upon Washing- 
ton as a great city because it was the 
capital of their country; but the vast 
scale upon which public improvements 
(ort have been. conducted in recent years, 


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coupled with the conspicuous part taken by the United States in international affairs, has brought this 
country into such prominence that the world is beginning to look to Washington as one of the centres of 
diplomacy and government that sways the destiny of nations. Its magnificent structures and imposing 
boulevards are beginning to vie with the great capitals of Europe, and foreign visitors are attracted to the 
city to see its glories. 

This growing importance has also tended to make the city more of a social centre, as well as a ren- 
dezvous of diplomatists, and many of the wealthy men of America have recently purchased sites and 
erected splendid mansions in Washington or its suburbs. Here the great affairs of the nation are settled, 
and the national government conducts its work, which reaches over a wide range of subjects. 


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JOHN B. VAN METER, D.D., 
Morgan Professor of Bible in English. 
Instructor in Psychology and Ethics. 
Dean of the Faculty: 
WILLIAM H. HOPKINS, PH.D., 
Professor of Latin. 
A.B. and A.M., St. John’s College; Ph D., Dickinson College. 
HANS FROELICHER, PH.D., 
Professor of German Language and Literature and 
of Art Criticism. 
Ph.D., University of Zurich, 1885. 
JOSEPH S. SHEFLOE, PH.D., 
Professor of Romanic Languages. 
Librarian. 


A.B., Luther College, 1885, and A.M., 1889; University 
Scholar and Fellow of Johns Hopkins University, 1888-90; Ph.D., 
Johns Hopkins University, 1890; Fellow by Courtesy, Johns 
Hopkins University, 1890-91. 


LILIAN WELSH, M.D., 
Professor of Physiology and Hygiene. 
M.D., Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1889. 
THADDEws P. THomas, PH.D., 


Professor of Economics and Sociology. 


Ph B.. A.M.. University of Tennessee, 1885-1887; Fellow in 
History, Vanderbilt University, 1891-92; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins 
University, 1895. 


CHARLES C. BLACKSHEAR, PH.D., 
Professor of Chemistry. 


A.B., Mercer University, 1881; University Scholar of Johns 
Hopkins University, 1890; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 
1890. 

WILLIAM H. MALTBIE, PH.D., 


Professor of Mathematics. 


A.B., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1890; A.M., 1892; Fellow 
of Johns Hopkins University, 1894-95; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins 
University, 1895. 


CHARLES W. HODELL, PH.D., 


Professor of the English Language and Literature. 

A B., De Pauw University, 1892; Ph.D., Cornell University, 
1894; Fellow in English, Cornell University, 1893-94, 
ELEANOR LoOUISA LORD, PH.D., 


Professor of History. 

A.B., A.M. Smith College 1887, 1890; Fellow in History, 
Bryn Mawr College. 1888-89 and 1895-96; Holderof the European 
Fellowship of the Woman's Educational Association of Boston, 
and Student in History at Newnham College, University of 
Cambridge, England, 1894-95: Ph D., Bryn Mawr College, 1896. 


FANNY COOK GaTEs, A.M., 
Professor of Physics. 


A.B, A.M. Northwestern University, 1894, 1895: Fellow in 
Mathematics. Northwestern University, 1894-95; Holder of the 
Bryn Mawr Scholarship 1895-96; Fellow in Mathematics, Bryn 
Mawr College, 1896-97: Holder of European Fellowship of the 
Association of Collegiate Alumnz, 1897-98; Graduate Student 
in Physics; University of GOttingen, Ziirich Polytecknicum, 
1897-98, 

WILLIAM E. KELLICOTT, PH.D., 


Professor of Biology. 


Ph.B Ohio State University, 1898; Ph.D, Columbia Uni- 
versity, 1904. 
Lita V. NortTH, A.B., 


Associate Professor of Greek. 

A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1895; University of Leipsic, 1895-96. 
CLARA LATIMER BACON, A.M., 
Associate Professor of Mathematics. 

A.B., Wellesley College, 1890; A M., University of Chicago, 1904. 


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Associate Professor of Rhetoric. 


A.B.. Kalamazoo College. 1888; A.M., University of Michi- 
gan 1890; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1899. 


FORREST SHREVE, PH.D., 
Associate Professor of Botany. 


A.B. Johns Hopkins University. 1901; Fellow, 1904-05; 
Ph.D., 1905; Adam T. Bruce Fellow, 1905-06. 


May LANSFIELD KELLER, PH.D., 


Associate Professor of English. 


A.B. Woman's College of Baltimore, 1898; Graduate Stu- 
dent, University of Chicago, 1900; Holder of European Fellow- 
ship of W.C. B , 1901-02: Graduate Student at the University of 
Berlin and Heidelberg, 1901-04; Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1904. 


GRACE S. WILLIAMS, PH.D., 
Associate Professor of Romanic Languages. 

A.B, Knox College, 1897; Graduate Student in Columbia 
University, 1898-99; Sorbonne Collége de France, Ecole des 
Chartes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1899-1900 and 1905-06; 
Istituto di Studi Superiori, Florence; Rome; Madrid; 1900-01: 
Holder of the European Fellowship of the Woman's Educational 
Association of Boston. 1900-01; Eléve Titulaire de 1l’Ecole Pra- 
tique des Hautes Etudes, 1901 and 1975-06: Ph.D., Columbia 
University, 1907; Instructor in Romance Languages, University 
of Missouri, 1902-07. 

ARTHUR BARNEVELD BIBBINS, PH.B., 
Associate Professor of Geology. 
Curator. 

Ph.B., Albion College, 1°87; Member of the Maryland Geo- 
logical Sutvey. Member of the United States Geological Survey, 
Fellow of the Geological Society of America and of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 

JOHNETTA VAN METER, A.B., 
Instructor in German. 


A.B., Woman's College of Baltimore, 1894; Holder of Euro- 
pean Fellowship of the Woman's College of Baltimore and 
Graduate Student at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, 
1900-01. 

LENA VAUGHN, S.B., 


‘ Instructor in Physics. 
S.B.. University of Chicago, 1902; Graduate Student and 
Scholar in Physics, University of Chicago, 1902-04. 
JESSIE S. WENNER, A.B., 
Instructor in Latin. 
A B., Woman's College of Baltimore, 1896. 


ANNIE HELOISE ABEL, PH.D., 
Instructor in History. 
A.B. 1898 Kansas State University: A.M., 1900, Kansas State 
University; Ph.D., 1905, Yale University. 
MARY GRIER WILLSON, A.M , 
Instructor in Rhetoric. 
A.B., 1903, Pennsylvania College for Women; A.M., 1904, 
University of Pennsylvania. 
EpitH C. BELLAMY, A.B., 
Instructor in Physics. - 
A B., University of Chicago, 1993; Graduate Student, 1905-06, 


HILDA ERIKSON, 
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Graduate of the Royal Central Gymnastic Iustitute, Stock- 
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Hiipa C. Ropway, 
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STATE HOUSE AT ANNAPOLIS 


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ALTIMORE, which was laid out on a tract of sixty acres of land in 1729, is one of 
the old cities of the United States, but Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, from 
1694 antedates it by many years. The development of Baltimore into a great city, 
with hundreds of thousands of people and miles of streets and houses, tends to 
obliterate the old landmarks, or obscure them so that they pass away unobserved. 

But Annapolis is one of the most unique and interesting places in the world, in that its 
history stretches into four centuries, yet it remains a city of about 10,000 population; one of the 
most famed of American cities in colonial days, it has gathered new laurels in the recent past; 
the seat of the greatest naval training school in the world, and supplied with other modern and 
up-to-date buildings and improvements, yet it retains on every side the landmarks of its 
antiquity. These ancient structures are the pride of its people and the delight of the visitor 
who comes from near and far to behold this composite city of the ancient and the modern. 


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BANCROFT HALL, THE ARMORY AND SEAMANSHIP BUILDING FROM THE WATER FRONT. 


The first step to renown for Annapolis was the transfer of the capital of the colony from St. Mary’s 
City, where the first settlement was made in 1634. During its colonial period the new capital became one 
of the great centres of official and social life. Its location on the banks of the Severn, one of the most 
beautiful rivers in the world, is most picturesque, giving an outlook across the harbor and the eke ss 
Bay to Kent Island on the Eastern Shore. 

As the events of the Revolutionary period unfolded, the city became the scene of many historic 
events. The burning of the Peggy Stewart as an emphatic expression of resistance to unjust taxation 
without representation, has passed into history. The old State House, built before the Revolution, was 
the seat of government for the united colonies for a time, andin its famous Senate chamber General 
George Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the American forces at the close of 
the war. The room has recently been restored to its former appearance, while a new annex, much larger 
than the old building, has been added, but without changing the appearance of the old structure, on the 
north, east and south sides. The State House is on a commanding eminence facing the east, encircled by 
a street from which radiate streets to all points of the compass. Just over the way is the Governor’s 
mansion, a fine home of comparatively recent date, and near by a handsome new building in which the 
Court of Appeals sits and containing various departments of the State government. 

One hundred yards west of the State House and beyond the Governor’s mansion is St. Anne’s 
Protestant Episcopal Church, in the centre of a second circle with radiating avenues. The St. Anne’s 
parish is one of the oldest in Maryland. 

Facing Church Circle is a splendid new post-office, built by the Federal government in the colonial 
style of architecture. A short distance north of the State House are the buildings and grounds of St. 
John’s College, the outgrowth of King William’s School of Colonial days. 

Extending nearly a mile across the Severn River front of the peninsula on which Annapolis is located, 
and along the northeastern part of the city, is the United States Naval Academy, famed throughout the 
world as the training school for the officers of the United States Navy. The American Navy has been the 
pride of the nation and the reconstruction of its training school during the last nine years at a cost of 
$10,000,000 has been watched with eager interest. 


THE U,. S. SHIP SEVERN, ONE OF THE PRACTICE SHIPS OF THE MIDSHIPMEN. 


BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 135 


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_The Naval Academy is two miles from the Chesapeake Bay and from this site fifty square miles of 
navigable waters are within view. The area of the Naval Academy grounds includes two hundred acres. 
Attached to these grounds by a bridge over College Creek on the northwest extending up the river is 
““The Government Farm,” consisting of one hundred and fourteen acres and a naval cemetery. On this 
is located the quarters of the Marine Guard of the Naval Academy and the School of Application for the 
education of officers for the Marine Corps. Opposite, on the north side of the river, is Fort Madison and 
its adjacent grounds of ninety acres. On these are located the 1,000-yard rifle range used by the 
midshipmen. 

The Naval Academy was established October 10, 1845. Its graduates have added greatly to the fame 
of the American navy, and it enjoys the reputation of being the best training school of its kind in the 
world. Its plant and equipment were for many years far from all that might have been desired. Ten 
years ags this unsatisfactory condition was officially recognized and the Congress made provision for the 
work of reconstruction, which once begun, has been carried steadily forward, until it is now nearly com- 
pleted. We have abridged from the “‘Book of the Royal Blue’’ for December, 1907, a description of the 
work. 

, “The first sod of the new Naval Academy was turned April 24, 1899, by the oldest living graduate of 
the school then in the active service of his country. 

“The buildings are grouped for economy in time in the practical working of the Academy. The main 
group consists of Bancroft Hall, the quarters of the midshipmen, 630 by 350 feet, with 900 rooms; the 
Armory and the Seamanship Building, each 400 by 110 feet, and both connected by covered ways with 
Bancroft Hall, making an edifice 1280 feet in extent, said to be the longest building in the world. This 
group overlooks old Fort Severn, built in 1808, and the parade ground along the southeastern water front. 

‘*A second group inclndes the Grand Chapel, 180 by 180 feet, and 168 feet high, with a beautiful 
dome, cupola and spire, the Administration Building, and the Superintendent’s Residence. 

“The academic group, including the Library, buildings for the Departments of Physics and Chem- 
istry, and Mathematics and Mechanics, is 400 by 350 feet. 

‘The Steam-Engineering Department, its annex and the power-house, which is 200 by 100 feet, make 
a fourth group. 

‘* A fifth group consists of handsome rows of houses, about one mile long, extending from the Severn 
to Dorsey’s or College Creek. There is a break in the continuity of these rows of houses made by three 
squares of Annapolis property, which it is anticipated Congress will acquire, giving the Academy grounds 
a straight line on the side towards the city.” 

On every side the visitor will find in Annapolis beautiful old homes illustrating the best types of. 
colonial architecture, and it is said that no place in the United States has such a rich store of these 
antique gems. 


136 BALTIMORE METHODISM AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 


NATIONAL MONUMENT, NATIONAL CEMETERY, GETTYSBURG. 


j= HE placid pose of this noble shaft of marble presents a striking contrast to the din and wreck 
| of battle that rolled in tumultuous discord over the hills of Gettysburg during the first three 
days of July, 1863. Peace reigns where war once gorged her sanguinary thirst. The memo- 
ries of that conflict are stalking down the “dim and long-drawn’’ aisles of time. But history, 
written in blood, was made in those days. A nation’s life was hanging in the balance. ‘The 
flood tide of danger dashed in all its fury and strength against the fabric of Federal government. Warp 
and woof withstood the fray and the nation survived in all its magnified glory. 

The struggle on the field of Gettysburg was one of the most momentous of the Civil War, and has 
appropriately been termed the ‘‘High-water mark of the Confederacy.’’ Its significance in the saving of 
the nation has been fully recognized, and the National Monument, erected in the midst of the graves of the 
thousands of brave and noble men who gave their lives for their country’s cause, has been supplemented 
by hundreds of unique and beautiful statues, columns, shafts and stones for miles around marking the 
location of the respective regiments who shared in this great battle. 

The tide of war has been supplanted by the tide of travel, and many thousands of Americans and visi- 
tors from foreign lands come hither to quaff at the fountain of patriotism, indulge in the twentieth century 
lust for sight-seeing, or perchance, rekindle the memories of a personal participation in the stirring 
scenes of 63, or drop a tear or place a wreath upon the sod that shrouds a friend or companion in arms. 


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GEN. MEADE’S HEADQUARTERS AT GETTYSBURG. 


AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1908 


The multitudes who go 
to Gettysburg find a na- 
tional cemetery surround- 
ing the monument shown 
in our illustration kept 
with the utmost care, and 
as the scenes of the three- 
days’ battle are traversed, 
the park-like aspect of the 
country testifies to the faith- 
ful efforts that have been 
made to suitably preserve 
and mark all the important 
points on the battle- 
ground. Well informed 
guides are available and are 
constantly surrounded by 
eager and interested audi- 
ences absorbed in the recital 
of the many thrilling inci- 
dents of the fight. Few 
persons who have the op- 
portunity miss a visit to 
Gettysburg. 


The city is a place of a few thousand inhabitants, the county seat of Adams county, Pennsylvania, 


and upwards of sixty miles from Baltimore. 
away a few miles to the mountain heights of the Blue Ridge. 
Agricultural pursuits are followed with the most gratifying results. 


The surrounding country is beautiful and fertile, stretching 
The people are prosperous and thrifty. 
But with all her creditable and well 


deserved elements of success, Gettysburg would probably have existed throughout the ages, ‘“‘unhonored 


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and unsung,’’ if the mutations 
of war had not peopled her hills 
and valleys with heavy guns and 
““first-class fighting men who 
have written their names in flame 
and glory upon the annals of 
their country, and incidentally 
made Gettysburg world-famed.”’ 
And so the compensating care 
of a kind Providence brings the 
little city renown, visitors and 
wealth in lieu of the losses, hor- 
rors and devastation of the days 
that have fled. 

The dedication ot the na- 
tional cemetery at Gettysburg, 
November 19, 1863, gave birth 
to the famous utterance of Presi- 
dent Lincoln delivered in his 
address that day, “‘that we here 
highly resolve... that govern- 
ment of the people,by the people, 
for the people, shall not perish 
from the earth.’’ 


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1. John King’s first Methodist sermon in Baltimore 7. First M. E. Church and Woman’s College. 

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3. Site Wilks Street M. E. Church. 9. Eutaw Street M. E. Church. 

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